EU families & Eurochildren in Brexiting Britain

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…

Eurochildren goes to the Continent

We are delighted to announce that the Eurochildren team has been awarded additional funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to carry out additional data collection and analysis in the coming months. The extension was granted to complete two main tasks: interviews with EU citizens formerly resident in the UK who left because…

Mapping EU citizens in the UK: A changing profile? From 1980s to the EU referendum

New Eurochildren report finds large variation in geographical distribution of EU-born UK residents at time of Brexit referendum. Download Eurochildren Research Brief No. 3 The Research Brief, ‘Mapping EU citizens in the UK: A changing profile?’, published today by the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), finds that at the time of…