Revisiting geographies of temporalities: The significance of time in migrant responses to Brexit

Gawlewicz, Anna; Sotkasiira, Tiina

doi:10.1002/psp.2275

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“…Could it be related to a Brexit fatigue that I noted among research participants during my fieldwork in 2017-2018 (cf. Gawlewicz and Sotkasiira, 2020)? The everyday nationalism scholarship suggests that myth-making plays an important role in constructing and maintaining national identity (Fox and Miller-Idriss, 2008, Palmer, 1998, Skey and Antonsich, 2017.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Gawlewicz¹

2020

Scottish Affairs

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“…Our article contributes to the emerging body of scholarship examining Brexit's impacts on migration projects. While that work acknowledges the importance of Brexit's temporal dynamics (e.g., Gawlewicz and Sotkasiira 2019;Rzepnikowska 2019), time remains underexplored in that literature (e.g., Lulle, Moroşanu, andKing 2018, Lulle et al 2019). By adopting a life-course lens and drawing upon a longitudinal dataset, we highlight time's importance in examinations of Brexit's potential impact on migrants' migratory projects.…”

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confidence: 91%

Unsettling Events: Understanding Migrants’ Responses to Geopolitical Transformative Episodes through a Life-Course Lens

Kilkey¹,

Ryan

2020

International Migration Review

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Migration under the European Union’s (EU) Freedom of Movement is constructed as temporary and circular, implying that migrants respond to changing circumstances by returning home or moving elsewhere. This construction underpins predictions of an exodus of EU migrants from the United Kingdom (UK) in the context of Brexit. While migration data indicate an increase in outflows since the vote to leave the EU, the scale does not constitute a “Brexodus.” Moreover, EU migrants’ applications for UK citizenship have been increasing. The data, though, are not sufficiently detailed to reveal who is responding to Brexit in which way. This article aims to offer a deeper understanding of how migrants experience and respond to changing geopolitical episodes such as Brexit. Introducing the term “unsettling events,” we analyze data collected longitudinally, in the context of three moments of significant change: 2004 EU enlargement, 2008–09 economic recession, and Brexit. Examining our data, mainly on Polish migrants, through a life-course lens, our findings highlight the need to account for the situatedness of migrant experiences as lived in particular times (both personal and historical), places, and relationships. In so doing, we reveal various factors informing migrants’ experiences of and reactions to unsettling events and the ways in which their experiences and reactions potentially impact migration projects.

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“…We know that for Polish nationals in the UK, settlement is a complex journey that is about more than the bureaucratic exercise of application. There are multiple temporalities of settlement (Gawlewicz and Sotkasiira, 2019); migrants embed into communities in multiple and diverse ways (Ryan, 2018) For some of our participants, Brexit signaled new economic opportunities and they were more optimistic about their future. The clarity of leaving the EU was viewed as a welcome step forward in contrast to the protracted uncertainty of negotiation.…”

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“…This article contributes to scholarship concerning the effects of the UK Referendum on EU membership and Brexit on EU citizen rights in the UK (Botterill, McCollum and Tyrrell, 2018;Burrell & Schweyher, 2019;Gawlewicz & Sotkasiira, 2019;Huber, 2019). The paper focuses on applications for, and meanings of, 'settled status' among Polish nationals living in urban and rural Scotland.…”

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Applying for Settled Status: Ambivalent and reluctant compliance of EU citizens in post-Brexit Scotland

Botterill¹,

Bogacki²,

Burrell³

et al. 2020

Scottish Affairs

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This article contributes to scholarship concerning the effects of the UK Referendum on EU membership and Brexit on EU citizen rights in the UK (Botterill, McCollum and Tyrrell, 2018 ; Burrell and Schweyher, 2019 ; Gawlewicz and Sotkasiira, 2019 ; Huber, 2019 ). The paper focuses on applications for, and meanings of, ‘settled status’ among Polish nationals living in urban and rural Scotland. In particular we argue that the ‘simple’ act of application produces diverse responses among Polish nationals, characterised by ambivalent and reluctant compliance, with longer term implications for ontological security and sustainable communities. In the paper we present empirical data from the perspectives of three differently positioned individuals to illustrate the heterogenous experience of Polish nationals in Scotland and to demonstrate how pre-existing vulnerabilities and conditions are compounded by the EU settlement scheme. First, we highlight a view of citizenship as ‘social contract’ through the vignette of Marek who expresses ambivalence about Brexit and for whom the welfare system serves both as a safety net and a space of the undeserving. Second, we reflect on the complex bureaucratic process of gaining citizenship for a family, through the vignette of Monika. Finally, we consider how form filling is an anxious act of validating oneself and questioning one's belonging to place with longer term effects on ontological insecurity, through the vignette of Weronika. We conclude by offering a set of recommendations for Scottish policy on intercultural communication, integration and sustainable communities that, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, is ever more significant.

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Revisiting geographies of temporalities: The significance of time in migrant responses to Brexit

Cited by 22 publications

References 39 publications

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

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

Unsettling Events: Understanding Migrants’ Responses to Geopolitical Transformative Episodes through a Life-Course Lens

Applying for Settled Status: Ambivalent and reluctant compliance of EU citizens in post-Brexit Scotland

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