‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit

Lumsden, Karen; Goode, Jackie; Black, Alexandra

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“…Constant and Zimmermann (2006) accept this perspective when they argue that discrimination can be an essential factor leading immigrants towards self-employment. Discrimination could be one of the most important factors affecting them in Lincolnshire, an area with limited ethnic diversity in England (Lumsden et al., 2018; Pickard, 2017). Cox and Jennings (1995) additionally acknowledged certain personality traits such as the need for achievement, risk-taking ability, innovation orientation, need for autonomy and decision-making skills, as critical factors which influence entrepreneurship.…”

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Immigrant entrepreneurs in rural England – An examination of the socio- cultural barriers facing migrant small businesses in Lincolnshire

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A growing body of literature recognises the crucial role played by immigrant entrepreneurs. However, certain socio-cultural barriers adversely affect their businesses in rural areas. Thus, this article examines the socio-cultural barriers facing immigrant entrepreneurs in Lincolnshire. Eleven semi-structured interviews were held with businesses owned by immigrants from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The findings identified migrant ethnocentrism, stereotypes, cultural differences and language differences as key socio-cultural barriers adversely affecting immigrant businesses in Lincolnshire. The research found that immigrant enterprises experienced growth issues, not just owing to the size of the market but also due to issues of embeddedness in the socio-economic nomenclature. The study found mixed embeddedness to be key to immigrant entrepreneurial success. This involves immigrant adaptation to develop relational embeddedness with the hosts, involvement with its social, structural and institutional frameworks. The study contributes to our understanding of the role of social, relational, structural and institutional embeddedness in steering fertile approaches to immigrant entrepreneurship in rural England which has been under-researched.

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Immigrant entrepreneurs in rural England – An examination of the socio- cultural barriers facing migrant small businesses in Lincolnshire

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“…And beyond the consideration of how Brexit is experienced by different European national groups living in the UK, Antonucci and Varriale (2019: 11, emphasis added) highlight the need to foreground an understanding of the impacts of Brexit for intra-EU migrants as ‘linked to ethnonational divisions that intersect with class, race and gender, producing under-researched configurations of inequality and privilege ’. From the amplification of racism directed towards Eastern Europeans since Brexit (see Lulle et al, 2018; Lumsden et al, 2019; McGhee and Pietka-Nykaza, 2016; Rzepnikowska, 2019), to the difficulties Roma populations have faced in navigating the EU settlement scheme (Godin and Bica, 2019), Brexit deepens the impact of bordering on the lives of EU migrants including, as I reveal in more detail below, British citizens living in the EU-27.…”

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Brexit and the Classed Politics of Bordering: The British in France and European Belongings

Benson

2019

Sociology

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This article considers what Brexit means for British citizens living in France. Drawing on empirical research I examine the emotional and material impacts that uncertainties about their futures have had on their lives. The article documents the measures they take (or anticipate) in their bids to secure their future rights to stay put in France. However, not everyone is well placed to secure their own future. Foregrounding Brexit as bordering – the social and political process through which judgements are made about who is ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ of the privilege of (European) belonging – I question who among these Britons is newly bordered through Brexit and with what impacts? As I argue, Brexit is unevenly experienced, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and generating new fault lines of belonging among the British in France as they are repositioned in relation to hierarchies of European belonging.

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“…Finally, it is important to note that a great deal has happened since these data were collected: social relations, processes of 'othering' and experiences of tensions and conflict are likely to change over time and be influenced by the social and political landscape. As Lumsden et al (2019) suggest in their recent study on Eastern European migrants' experiences of hate crime, temporal factors are significant for differentiating the category 'migrants' in relation to when they migrated, how long they have been undergoing processes of identification in a new country, and historical 'events' such as recession, the EU Referendum and 'Brexit' -events which serve to (re)activate latent hostilities which, when mobilised, disrupt integration both by and within (heterogeneous) migrant 'communities. (p. 180) There has been some evidence to show that hate crime and prejudice has been increasingly experienced by migrants since the European Union referendum whereby a culture of intolerance was legitimised during and after the Brexit campaign (Wilson, 2016).…”

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Strangers in our midst: Immigration, social capital and segmented conflict

Griffiths

2021

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Putnam famously stated in his ‘hunkering down’ thesis that residents of diverse communities experiencing immigration retreat into their homes inhibiting the production of ‘social capital’. Immigration is therefore often posited to disrupt communities and positive social interaction, ultimately increasing tension and conflict between groups. Moving beyond Putnam’s simplistic account that immigration inevitably disrupts social capital, this article aims to instead show the complex features of civility and conflict that can co-exist among migrant and local communities. The research was based in a small working-class town in the North West of England that experienced the migration of Polish workers. Using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods, the key results show how new Polish migrants in particular demonstrate complex forms of social interaction displaying in-group hostility but out-group civility. Lenski’s notion of ‘status inconsistency’ is used to help explain why migrants with a high level of education but a low income are particularly mistrustful and intolerant of others.

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‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit

Abstract: LUMSDEN, Karen, GOODE, Jackie and BLACK, Alex (2018). 'I will not be thrown out of the country because I'm an immigrant': Eastern European migrants' responses to hate crime in a semi-rural context in the wake of Brexit. Sociological Research Online.

Cited by 28 publications

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Immigrant entrepreneurs in rural England – An examination of the socio- cultural barriers facing migrant small businesses in Lincolnshire

Immigrant entrepreneurs in rural England – An examination of the socio- cultural barriers facing migrant small businesses in Lincolnshire

Brexit and the Classed Politics of Bordering: The British in France and European Belongings

Strangers in our midst: Immigration, social capital and segmented conflict

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