How are perceptions of fair administrative process formed? New qualitative evidence from a study of Homes for Ukraine
Paper 1 Title: Whose procedural fairness?
Abstract: Thought on procedural fairness in administrative justice has traditionally focused on the relationship between public decision-makers and the person or group formally subject to the decision-making process. Yet, people who are not the direct subject of such processes but are, in various ways, able to access the experiences of others can also have salient and consequential experiences of procedural fairness. This article demonstrates empirically this phenomenon, which we label ‘vicarious administrative fairness’, and observes that it is vital to developing a fuller understanding of the sociology of administrative justice. In turn, this richer sociological understanding raises new questions about if and how institutions, including the law itself, ought to respond to it – not least as it calls into question the default, individualistic unit of analysis underpinning conventional thinking.
Authors: Joe Tomlinson, Eleana Kasoulide, Jed Meers, Simon Halliday
Publication: Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
Link to paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09649069.2023.2243150
Funder: Research England
Paper 2 Title: Direct and vicarious administrative burden: Experiences of UK public services as Homes for Ukraine host
Abstract: This article shows, through a study of hosts’ experiences of the UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme, the ways in which sponsoring refugees can impose burdens on sponsors by virtue of the state’s administrative processes. Specifically, it shows how sponsors incur learning, compliance, and psychological costs from administrative burdens and that these burdens are encountered both directly, through their own engagements with public bodies, and vicariously, through the experiences of their guests. The article thus makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the ground-level experience of refugee sponsorship while also expanding the burgeoning theory of administrative burden by demonstrating the relevance of burdens experienced vicariously.
Authors: Joe Tomlinson, Eleana Kasoulide, Jed Meers, Simon Halliday
Publication: Journal of Refugee Studies
Link to paper: https://academic.oup.com/jrs/article/37/3/768/7680649
Funder: Research England
