“I returned to being an immigrant”: onward Latin American migrants and Brexit

Turcatti, Domiziana; Vargas‐Silva, Carlos

doi:10.1080/01419870.2022.2058884

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“…For example, drawing on research across the UK, Nando Sigona and Marie Godin (2023) highlighted the situated politics of Brexit on EU families. Within these works, there is limited consideration of the implications for families that were mixed-status prior to Brexit (for notable exceptions see Solanke, 2019Solanke, , 2020Turcatti and Vargas-Silva, 2022;Zambelli, 2020). Families have also featured in the broader field of research on Brexit and migration; family relations have been identified as significant to decision making about where to live, and family as a social anchor or resource caught up in the decision to stay put (Hall et al, 2020;McCarthy, 2019) or as a motive for repatriation (Sredanovic, 2021).…”

Section: Families Citizens' Rights and Brexitmentioning

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Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families

Zambelli,

Benson,

Sigona

2023

Sociology

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This article examines the Brexit-driven remaking of some EU families into mixed-status families. Drawing on original research conducted in 2021–2022 with British, EU/EEA and non-EU/EEA citizens living in the UK or the EU/EEA, it shows how families whose members have previously enjoyed equal rights to freedom of movement across the EU/EEA variously negotiate the consequences of Brexit on their lives. Central to our analysis is the interplay between hardening borders and the stickiness of family relations, and its effects on families’ migration and settlement projects. The article brings to the fore these emerging entanglements offering a much-needed relational analysis of the impact of Brexit on the directly affected populations, while contributing more widely to expanding the existing scholarship on mixed-status families, by attending to the peculiar ways in which families whose members previously enjoyed equal status under EU law have experienced their transformation into subjects with unequal rights.

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