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…
Tag: Eurochildren
“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…
Thousands of children of EU parents at risk of falling through the cracks of Brexit, University of Birmingham research reveals
Thousands EU citizens and their family members living in the UK under EU law are at risk of ‘falling through the cracks’, with their rights of future residence in question after Brexit, Eurochildren researchers say. In two Eurochildren Research Briefs published today on the impact of the UK-EU agreement on residence and citizenship rights for…
“This is a disgusting political lie”: EU parents respond to the Children’s Commissioner’s letter to Michel Barnier
by Nando Sigona [originally published in LSE Europp Blog, 14 July 2017] Unhelpful, patronising, misinformed, politically motivated, disgusting: shocked parents of EU children living in the UK took to Twitter to react angrily to the intervention of the Children’s Commissioner for England in the Brexit debate. What did the Commissioner Anne Longfield say? And why…
Who are ‘we’? Podcast on Brexit and belonging
The first episode of Breaking Brexit podcast series features IRiS research on Brexit and belonging and tackles head-on one of the main issues EU nationals in the UK are faced with since the referendum: who are ‘we’? Lou Del Bello who curates the podcast series explains: We used to be just normal citizens who happened…
Brexit, net migration and Eurochildren
The UK’s Office for National Statistics has released its quarterly update on net migration. This time the figure, 248,000, the lowest level for nearly three years, is ‘favourable’ for the government. But what does ‘favourable’ really mean? Theresa May’s decision to keep net migration in the Tory manifesto as the benchmarch for the success or…
EU families & Eurochildren in Brexiting Britain 