Higgins, K.W. orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-8044 (2019) National belonging post‐referendum: Britons living in other EU Member States respond to “Brexit”. Area, 51 (2). pp. 277-284. ISSN 0004-0894
Abstract
Following the EU Referendum, this paper tracks how pro‐Remain British migrants living in other EU Member States expressed a sense of shame and dislocation in relation to their national identity. Developed from a survey of 909 British nationals living in other EU Member States, it hopes to make a timely intervention into wider debates about privileged migration, Britishness, citizenship and belonging. First, it outlines a new articulation of the “bad Britain” discourse among emigrants, who saw the UK as increasingly characterised by xenophobia and insularity. Second, it seeks to understand how their national identity and sense of belonging was being renegotiated post‐referendum through a lens attentive to the cultural politics of emotion and innocence as an operation of whiteness.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | "Brexit”; British; Europe; migrants; survey; whiteness |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jun 2018 09:51 |
Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2021 12:53 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/area.12472 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:131769 |