01999nas a2200241   4500008004100000022001400041245011500055210006900170300001200239490000600251520117000257653001101427653001401438653001101452653002101463653002101484100002601505700002201531700002701553700002101580700003001601856012601631       2020                        eng d  a2300-168200aThe Impact of Brexit on Young Poles and Lithuanians in the UK: Reinforced Temporariness of Migration Decisions0 aImpact of Brexit on Young Poles and Lithuanians in the UK Reinfo  a127-1420 v93 a<p>The main aim of this paper is to assess the extent to which the 2016 Brexit referendum impacted on the decisions of young Polish and Lithuanian migrants to stay in the UK or return to the country of origin. We analyse information from 76 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Lithuanians and Poles living in the UK, as well as those who have returned to Lithuania and Poland since June 2016. We find that, for our interviewees, the referendum had little impact on the decision to stay in the UK or return to the country of origin, giving way, instead, to work, family and lifestyle considerations. Only for a select few did it act as a trigger, either adding to other reasons which eventually prompted the return to Lithuania or Poland, or motivating people to secure their rights in the UK and delay plans to leave the country. We conclude by discussing our results together with existing research on transnationalism and life-course migration theory: regardless of interviewees&rsquo; decisions to stay or return, these were never final, stressing the fluid nature of migration and the desire of our interviewees to maintain ties across multiple places.</p>10aBrexit10aLithuania10aPoland10areturn migration10atransnationalism1 aKlimavičiūtė, Luka1 aParutis, Violetta1 aJonavičienė, Dovilė1 aKarolak, Mateusz1 aWermińska-Wiśnicka, Iga  uhttps://ceemr.uw.edu.pl/content/impact-brexit-young-poles-and-lithuanians-uk-reinforced-temporariness-migration-decisions