01815nas a2200193 4500008004100000022001400041245007600055210006900131300001000200490000600210520121700216653001101433653001301444653001601457653001601473653001601489100002001505856009601525 2020 eng d a2300-168200aThe Emotional Geographies of Migration and Brexit: Tales of Unbelonging0 aEmotional Geographies of Migration and Brexit Tales of Unbelongi a29-450 v93 a
This article focuses on the emotionality of belonging among European Union (EU) citizens in the context of the United Kingdom’s (UK) 2016 referendum and its result in favour of the UK leaving the EU, commonly referred to as Brexit. Drawing from testimonies of EU27 citizens in the UK (mainly mid- to long-term residents) published in a book and on blog and Twitter accounts by the not-for-profit and non-political initiative, the ‘In Limbo Project’, it explores a range of emotions which characterise the affective impact of Brexit and how they underpin two key processes disrupting the sense of belonging of EU citizens: the acquisition of ‘migrantness’ and the non-recognition of the contributions and efforts made to belong. The resulting narratives are characterised by senses of ‘unbelonging’, where processes of social bonding and membership are disrupted and ‘undone’. These processes are characterised by a lack of intersubjective recognition in the private, legal and communal spheres, with ambivalent impacts on EU citizens’ longer-term plans to stay or to leave and wider implications for community relations in a post-Brexit society.
10aBrexit10aemotions10aEU citizens10arecognition10aunbelonging1 aMasGiralt, Rosa uhttp://ceemr.uw.edu.pl/content/emotional-geographies-migration-and-brexit-tales-unbelonging