Brexit, ‘Immigration’ and Anti-Discrimination

Favell, Adrian; Barbulescu, Roxana

doi:10.4324/9781315169613-10

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“…Clearly, instead of reducing the net migration from the EU, this campaign is more interested in a more holistic approach to halting the immigration to the UK and they seek for a pro-active state to restore the job market for the British workers. Although it is also argued that UKIP's term "EU Immigrant" successfully occupied the public debate during the referendum campaign (Favell and Barbulescu, 2018), UKIP and Nigel Farage's approach to immigration is more extensive than that. In the one hand, the "Breaking Point" poster which according to Farage has transformed politics, had the subtitle "[t]he EU has failed us all" (BBC, 2019), he also advocated the Australian visa pointbased system for immigration (BBC, 2015) which indicates the extent of the issue for him and his party UKIP.…”

Section: A Britain: Populism and Migration In The Age Of Brexitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Populism Geopolitically: Authoritarian Populism and Migration Politics in Britain and Turkey

Altinors¹

2021

Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

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This research aims to analyse the authoritarian populism-migration nexus and to evaluate why and how authoritarian populist rhetoric vary in different geopolitical contexts. Recently, there has been a significant increase in the number of studies on populism and its impact on international politics and foreign policy. However, there is a dearth of research on the specific impact of authoritarian populist discourse on migration in different geopolitical specificities. This article will engage with two key research objectives to fill this gap. First, it examines the interaction between authoritarian populist rhetoric on managing migration in Britain and Turkey. Second, it interrogates whether the authoritarian populist impact on migration in these countries has overlapping features. This article contends that, as far as the authoritarian populism-migration nexus is concerned, populism is developed geopolitically.

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Section: A Britain: Populism and Migration In The Age Of Brexitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Populism Geopolitically: Authoritarian Populism and Migration Politics in Britain and Turkey

Altinors¹

2021

Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

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“…The full story of how and why freedom of movement was twisted into “EU immigration” – thereby becoming the main driver of the anti‐EU vote in Britain – is a political story, not one that has any economic foundation (a story we tell elsewhere: see Favell and Barbulescu, ). What we focus on here, rather, are the precise legal and policy moves Britain and Germany have made to untie the knot between freedom of movement and access to welfare for EU nationals.…”

Section: Uk: Retraction and Delay Of Welfare Rights For Eu Citizensmentioning

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Commentary: A Citizenship without Social Rights? EU Freedom of Movement and Changing Access to Welfare Rights

Barbulescu

Favell

2020

International Migration

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Despite not being grounded in the classic nation-building dynamic of citizenship identified by T.H.Marshall, EU citizenship offers social rights and welfare protection to non-nationals on a principle of non-discrimination. We narrate a creeping process of retrenchment by which European member states have used policy strategies to undermine this principle, by transforming the unique idea of free movement of persons in the EU to just another form of "immigration" which can be subject to selectivity and exclusion. As Europe's multiple recent crises have unfolded, political resources were found to effect this transformation tangibly via reshaping access to welfare for EU citizens. Focusing on the cases of the UK and Germany, we discuss how, despite their distinctive welfare regimes and labour market systems, these two countries have led the way toward a dismantling of non-discrimination for EU citizens and effectively the end of the anomalous 'post-national' dimension of European citizenship.

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“…Central to understanding how this celebratory racism suddenly emerged after the Brexit vote is the how far immigration was the central issue underlying the campaign for Britain to leave the EU. Rather than the actual numbers and character of migration to the UK from Europe being the key factor, it was how politician's concerns with immigration generated a series of myths about the numbers and categories of migrants that principally constructed the public response (Favell and Barbulescu, 2018). More generally it has been suggested that the Brexit vote reflected long term deep seated racism across the UK population and not just amongst a 'left behind' working class (Virdee and McGeever, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%