EU families & Eurochildren in Brexiting Britain

Lack of trust in UK government’s settled status scheme pushes EU citizens to apply for naturalisation: new reports launched today reveal

Many EU nationals have lost trust the UK government and its Settled status scheme and feel they are being pushed to apply for British citizenship as the only viable way to secure the position of their families in the long run. Eurochildren, which is researching the lives on EU citizens in the UK, has released…

“If you are Black and immigrant, Brexit hasn’t changed how you feel in Britain. It was bad, it still is”, French Cameroonian Thomas explains.

“Because he’s black, and I’m white, Brexit doesn’t feel the same”, Thomas is French and Cameroonian and wants to become British, while Sonia who is French doesn’t see the point. Meanwhile their daughter Zoe is British and French, and son Leo is just French. Portraits of EU families in London is a participatory photo project…

“There is a lesson for us all to learn…”: Portraits of EU families in London

Diversity if a fact of life in London. But things can change and we shouldn’t be complacent.

“The future looks volatile even in London’s bubble”: Portraits of EU families in London

Italian academic Gianluca and Russian architect Veronika struggle to imagine a long-term future for their family in the UK.

“Lexit is not a bad idea”: Portraits of EU families in London in the shadow of Brexit

To mark this year’s International Day of Families, we are releasing the first of a series of audio and photo portraits of EU families living in London. The portraits, we will release one or two a week until the end of June, stem from a participatory photo research project that aims to capture a glimpse…

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…