Ain’t no black in the (Brexit) Union Jack? Race and empire in the era of Brexit and the<i>Windrush</i>scandal

Cummings, Ronald

doi:10.1080/17449855.2020.1815972

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“…Brexit has re-invigorated the debates on the conditionality of belonging of people with different migration histories; from post-colonial migrants and their descendants as highlighted by the Windrush scandal (Cummings 2020), to the CEE migrants scapegoated as the 'reason' for Brexit. While the politics of belonging based on structuring hierarchies of deservingness has been present in the UK's political landscape for decades, Brexit debates and atmosphere surrounding it have become a pinnacle of the 'hostile environment' ideology.…”

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Do I deserve to belong? Migrants’ perspectives on the debate of deservingness and belonging

Blachnicka-Ciacek

Trąbka

Budginaitė‐Mačkinė

et al. 2021

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The notion of belonging, prominent in social sciences, has been recently used extensively in relation to Central Eastern European migrants in the UK. Whereas the Brexit debates on migration have spotlighted the macro-politics of belonging and the judgments on who deserves to stay and under which conditions, the question of how these discourses of 'deservingness' surrounding Brexit may influence the everyday and intimate aspects of belonging among migrants warrants further exploration. Drawing on the interviews with 77 young Polish and Lithuanian migrants in the UK conducted from 2019 to 2020, this article examines how migrants position themselves in relation to the discourses of deservingness and hierarchies of desirability. The focus is also placed on how they negotiate their strategies of (un)belonging to the British society. We argue that the prominence of the deservingness discoursewhich has gained momentum in Brexit Britain -entraps migrants in the constant process of boundary making and may prevent them from ever feeling part of the 'community of value'.

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confidence: 99%