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…
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“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.
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…
“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…
EU families & Eurochildren in Brexiting Britain 