EU families & Eurochildren in Brexiting Britain

Say fromage! Portraits of EU families at the time of Brexit: Call of participants

Brexit is changing the position of Britain in Europe and impacting on the lives of millions of EU nationals living in the UK. Our project is focusing in particular on families and children. The aim of the photo project is to portrait the diversity of EU families living in London and how they are coping…

“It’s about our fEUture!”: A photo-essay on the #PeoplesVoteMarch

Brexit is changing the future of Britain in ways no one can yet fully foresee, but what we already know is enough to cause mass anxieties among millions of people. The consequences of the EU referendum are likely to be felt for generations to come. So it is no surprise that there were so many…

Eurochildren meets Keir Starmer

During his visit to the University of Birmingham on 7 February, Labour Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer met with Nando Sigona and the other Birmingham-based UK in a Changing Europe research projects. Eurochildren director presented some interim findings from the project, in particular concerning the mapping of 40 years of EU migration towards the…

How you feel about Brexit

We recently got in touch again with the EU parents (120) we had interviewed earlier on in the Brexit negotiation process to ask some follow up questions. When we first spoke many people mentioned plans, in some cases vague aspirations, to leave Britain, others instead were worried about their legal status and were planning to…

40 years in 4 maps and a GIF

Over forty years of EU membership Britain has seen the population of resident EU nationals rising from 1.8% in 1981 to roughly 5% at the time of the EU referendum in 2016. We use official statistics to provide a historical overview of EU nationals in the UK since the early 1980s until the period around…

“It took 2 hours and one third didn’t get through”: Piloting the settled status application with Roma migrants

By Marie Godin and Mihai Calin Bica* Since the Brexit referendum that took place on 23 June 2016, the Roma Support Group[1], a community organisation working with Roma people in the UK, has been active in informing community members about their rights. In addition, the organisation has been involved in campaigning towards local, regional and…

Theresa May’s dog-whistle rhetoric on EU citizens jumping the queue – and its effect on my four-year-old

Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham “Daddy, have we jumped the queue?” She looked at me with her big inquisitive eyes, a little confused and worried. Matilda is four and in reception class. She’s learning a lot of fascinating things at the moment, about planets, robots, rockets and space exploration. She’s also learning about how…

12 video bites on belonging, nationalism and citizenship

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#rethinkingnationalism is a twelve bite-sized (1-9 min) video series that offers academic insight and public perspectives on nationalism, belonging, and diversity in Europe today. The series produced by Migration Matters is part of Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange, a ground-breaking project that enables youth in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean to engage…

Bye bye Britain: call for participants

Are you a EU citizen formerly resident in the UK? Have you and your family left after the EU referendum? We would like to talk to you and hear your story. The kind of questions we would like to ask you are: Where did you move to? Did you settle OK? What about the other…