From ‘Expats’ to ‘Migrants’: strategies of resilience among French movers in post-Brexit Manchester

Brahic, Bénédicte; Lallement, Maxime

doi:10.1080/21632324.2018.1503486

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“…Referendum; my interviews as well as other post-Referendum research (e.g Guma and Jones 2019, Lulle et al 2019, Brahic and Lallement 2020. has shown how the Referendum has changed significantly the attitudes of EU27 citizens, both because most did not expect Brexit to go through and because of the feeling of defeat and being unwelcome (see also <Author> forthcoming).…”

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“…The post-Referendum survey conducted by McCarthy (2019) further shows a greater intention of settling in the UK among naturalized Spanish citizens from Latin America who have completed an onward migration to the UK, compared to migrants born in Spain. Qualitative studies show the role of children(Zontini and Però 2020), British partners, and non-transferable professional skills(Brahic and Lallement 2020) in limiting the plans of onward or return migrations among EU27 citizens in the UK. The research with young EU27 citizens of Lulle and colleagues(Lulle et al 2018, Lulle at al.…”

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Brexit as a Trigger and an Obstacle to Onwards and Return Migration

Sredanovic

2020

International Migration

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In this article, using in-depth interviews with EU27 citizens residing in the UK and Britons residing in Belgium, I analyse the role of the Brexit process as both a trigger of and an obstacle to onward and return migration. Brexit implicates a reduction in the freedom of movement and settlement for both groups, and has been linked to the increase of xenophobia and potential economic instability in the UK. In this context, both EU27 citizens in the UK and Britons in Belgium can consider onward or return migrations. However, the Brexit process introduces also obstacles to such migrations, including the loss of EU freedom of movement for UK citizens and complications for transnational and citizenship-divergent families. I argue that the realization of migration plans is mediated both by individual resources and by imaginations on the future of the UK and the EU.

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Brexit as a Trigger and an Obstacle to Onwards and Return Migration

Sredanovic

2020

International Migration

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“…Through focusing on Brexit, and by exploring perspectives of both the long-settled and migrant population, I have added a new layer to the growing scholarship on migration, Brexit and diverse UK communities (e.g. Botterill, 2018, Brahic and Lallement, 2018, Guma and Dafydd Jones, 2018, Lulle et al, 2018. In a wider context, the article provides an original perspective on how nations are re-imagined in turbulent times.…”

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‘Scotland's different’: Narratives of Scotland's distinctiveness in the post-Brexit-vote era

Gawlewicz¹

2020

Scottish Affairs

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While Scotland has been portrayed as an outlier in the context of Brexit, we know relatively little about how ordinary people in Scotland, including a growing migrant population, make sense of this (political and media) narrative. In order to address this gap, in this article I look at everyday narratives of Scotland's distinctiveness in the post-Brexit-vote era among the long-settled population and Polish – and to a lesser degree other European Union – migrants in the East End of Glasgow. By drawing upon scholarship on everyday nationalism and imagined communities, I explore discursive claims which romanticise Scotland as different and ‘welcoming’ of immigration and position it in binary opposition to England. How is Scotland produced as different in the context of Brexit? How are these stories used to re-imagine increasingly diverse Scottish society? In what ways are they being employed by migrant communities?

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“…The UK's new immigration policies are being shaped without EU citizens' involvement, and the new borders of the UK will re-frame them as economic migrants (Brahic & Lallement 2018). Their right to unconditional family reunification may be revoked, and some may be unable to demonstrate the financial ability to sponsor a dependent parent in the UK.…”

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“…The results of the Referendum came as a shock to many EU citizens living in the UK, who felt angry and betrayed (Duda-Mikulin 2018), grieving the loss of their secure status under FOM (Brahic & Lallement 2018). The sense of betrayal was exacerbated by the hate crimes shortly after the referendum and statements from high-profile UK politicians that contributed to building a hostile environment targeting EU citizens in Britain.…”

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Envisaging post-Brexit immobility: Polish migrants’ care intentions concerning their elderly parents

Radziwinowiczówna¹,

Kloc‐Nowak²,

Rosińska³

2020

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The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union will end the European Freedom of Movement and the privileged migration status of EU Citizens in the UK, which will likely affect ‘Brexit families’ and their transnational care arrangements. This is a case study of the biggest migrant group in the UK, namely Poles. Before the Brexit referendum, the first wave of the in-depth interviews identified several types of migrants’ intentions concerning elderly care for their parents who remained in Poland. The research approached intentions as discursive strategies: declarations of care commitment and statements provided to explain the absence of care intentions. The second wave was conducted after the UK had decided to exit the EU and new policies concerning EU citizens were being developed. Brexit’s influence on elderly care intentions is twofold. First, it brings higher uncertainty about future migration regulations and disorientates migrants about the possibilities regarding reunification with their parents in the UK. Second, Brexit appears in the interviews as a discursive construction to alleviate a migrant’s involvement in direct care provision, where they still deem it normatively appropriate to enact this cultural norm, but do not intend to in fact do so.

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From ‘Expats’ to ‘Migrants’: strategies of resilience among French movers in post-Brexit Manchester

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Brexit as a Trigger and an Obstacle to Onwards and Return Migration

Brexit as a Trigger and an Obstacle to Onwards and Return Migration

‘Scotland's different’: Narratives of Scotland's distinctiveness in the post-Brexit-vote era

Envisaging post-Brexit immobility: Polish migrants’ care intentions concerning their elderly parents

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