Stakeholder citizenship: the complexities of Polish migrants’ citizenship attachments in the context of the Scottish independence referendum

Pietka-Nykaza, Emilia; McGhee, Derek

doi:10.1080/13621025.2015.1054789

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“…Since then, Poles have been the focus of many academic studies (e.g. Moskal, 2016;Pietka-Nykaza and McGhee, 2014;Shubin and Dickey, 2013;Trevena, 2009), with the Brexit referendum generating a renewed interest in the conditions for EU migrants in Scotland. Botterill and Hancock (2018) observe that Brexit caused Polish migrants to 'rescale their belonging' and question their national identities and affiliations, while Knight (2017) suggests that the referendum resulted in feelings of anxiety and fear among EU migrants.…”

Section: Brexit Scotland and Eu Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

Bogacki

Botterill

Burrell

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European Urban and Regional Studies

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This article takes the concept of spatial imaginaries to explore how the post-Brexit negotiations shifted meanings of ‘Europe’ for Polish migrants residing in Scotland. A flourishing subfield of ‘Brexit geographies’ has explored the meaning and consequences of Brexit (as an event, process and affect) for wide-ranging communities on the move and in place. Yet, the question of how ‘Europe’, and in particular ‘EUrope’, is being re-imagined and re-constituted by EU migrants residing in uncertain political spaces remains understudied. In this article, we address this lacuna through analysis of biographical narrative interviews and spatial mapping exercises. In doing so, we conduct a multi-scalar analysis of Polish migrants’ discursive and visual representations of EUrope, defined both as a geographical and institutional space. The study is spatially and temporally situated at a particular time and place in the Brexit timeline – the summer of 2019 in rural and urban Scotland. At this time, Brexit negotiations were ongoing, there was widespread uncertainty about the consequences for migrants in the United Kingdom, and, in Scotland particularly, much resistance to leaving the European Union. The article argues that while Brexit might have not affected European identity among Polish migrants in Scotland, it has prompted them to reconsider their place in Europe and to reimagine both the geographical and conceptual parameters of EUrope.

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Section: Brexit Scotland and Eu Migrantsmentioning

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What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

Bogacki

Botterill

Burrell

et al. 2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…What becomes evident is that Brexit is perceived by many EU migrants as a political event that destabilised their sense of belonging and feelings of security (Lulle, Moroşanu, and King 2018;Tyrrell et al 2018). Others however, tend to articulate that Brexit is only a part of longer continuum of the structural and institutional discrimination of EU migrants evidenced throughout the longer-standings restriction of their citizenship rights (McGhee and Pietka-Nykaza, 2016) and access to labour markets and social protection (Lafleur and Mescol, 2018). This article offers new insights to citizenship constellations by providing greater understandings of complex, blurred and changing relations between citizenship attributions including political participation, legal citizenship and sense of belonging.…”

Section: Polish Migrant's Presence In Scotlandmentioning

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Complexities of Polish migrant's citizenship attributions in the context of Brexit and the Scottish Independence Referendums

Pietka-Nykaza

McGhee

2020

Scottish Affairs

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This article focuses on the experiences of Scotland's largest foreign-born minority group, namely Poles, in the run-up to the Scottish Independence Referendum in 2014 and subsequently the UK's EU Referendum. Through exploring Polish migrant residents initial responses and experiences with regard to both referendums, this article (1) outlines perspectives on blurred and contested boundaries and formations of citizenships and (2) the implications of complex and changing relations between citizenship attributions (e.g. political participation, legal status of citizenship and sense of belonging) on the process of citizenship formation. This article therefore offers a greater understanding of the transformation of traditional state-centric concepts of citizenship rights into the shifting borders and character of citizenship formation during the times of political uncertainties.

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“…While some elements within the resident EU citizen community publicly embraced the opportunity to cast a ballot, 53 research suggests that for some, having the vote was seen as a burdensome privilege rather than an important opportunity for political self--determination. 54 It is interesting to note that the nationals of the other Member States were not part of the electorate for the 1979 devolution referendum, which was conducted on the basis of the Westminster (i.e. national) franchise.…”

Section: A) Legal and Constitutional Considerations: The Scottish Refmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unions and Citizens: Membership Status and Political Rights in Scotland, the UK and the EU

Shaw¹

2017

Secession From a Member State and Withdrawal From the European Union

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This chapter-in a volume analysing aspects of the putative withdrawal of a Member State from the European Union and/or the secession of a 'region' from a (Member) state-makes use of the lenses of citizenship to explore the interaction between the two dimensions of 'troubled membership'. It applies a law-and-politics approach, which locates legal change in its broader political context and focuses on the contestation of the boundaries of polity membership. After setting the scene (Section 2), the chapter explores the content of a possible future Scottish citizenship regime (Section 3) and then examines the intertwining of formal legal membership and political citizenship in respect of both the Scottish referendum and the UK's referendum on EU membership (Section 4). The threads are drawn together in the conclusions (Section 5) through a discussion of how the EU referendum outcomes may impact upon the issue at the heart of the Scottish referendum debate, namely the ongoing viability of the UK as a union state.

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Stakeholder citizenship: the complexities of Polish migrants’ citizenship attachments in the context of the Scottish independence referendum

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

Complexities of Polish migrant's citizenship attributions in the context of Brexit and the Scottish Independence Referendums

Unions and Citizens: Membership Status and Political Rights in Scotland, the UK and the EU

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