Performing whiteness: Central and Eastern European young people’s experiences of xenophobia and racialisation in the UK post-Brexit

Sime, Daniela; Tyrrell, Naomi; Käkelä, Emmaleena; Moskal, Marta

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2022.2085678

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“…The paper draws its findings from a study carried out with young people aged 12-18 living in the UK, who had migrated as children from Central and Eastern European countries. The majority had been in the UK for 5 + years or longer (Table 1; see also Sime et al 2022). An online survey was carried out in England and Scotland, including questions on young people's everyday experiences, involvement in communities, relationships, access to services, voting intentions and preference for political parties.…”

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“…In another study, islamophobia was a central feature of young Muslims' everyday lives and an obstacle to community involvement, but also a driving force for political participation (Finlay and Hopkins 2019). In the UK, minoritized groups have been increasingly affected by racism and hate crime since the Brexit Referendum (Albornoz et al, 2020;Rzepnikowska 2019;Sime et al 2022). Anti-immigration rhetoric and framing the "immigrant" in a culturally racialized and semantically degrading manner have also been markers of tabloid journalism (Fox, Moroşanu, and Szilassy 2012;Anderson 2013), fostering a climate of xenophobia.…”

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“…Young people's experiences of racism and discrimination were found to have a potentially decreasing impact on their sense of belonging to the UK, showing a weak, but significant, negative correlation between the two. In other words, experiencing discrimination may alienate young people from the places they live in, with consequences for political and civic participation (see also Sime et al 2022).…”

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Marginalized (non)citizens: migrant youth political engagement, volunteering and performative citizenship in the context of Brexit

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Behrens

2022

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Migrants' opportunities for civic and political participation are often restricted by their legal rights. This paper reports on a study which included a survey with 1,120 young people aged 12-18 originally from Central and Eastern Europe, living in the UK, and follow-up focus groups with 122 participants. We examine young people's views on political and non-political participation and their engagement in everyday performative citizenship. We found connections between civic participation and political participation, and both are conditioned by one's sense of belonging to place and recognition of individual agency. Young people were interested and wanted to be involved in politics, yet they did not feel they could shape political decisions, unlike other forms of participation, such as volunteering and social activism. The study progresses existing knowledge on young people's exclusions from everyday performative citizenship, in the context of current public debates on youth engagement and young migrants' integration.

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Marginalized (non)citizens: migrant youth political engagement, volunteering and performative citizenship in the context of Brexit

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“…Another student said that the Head of the English Department told them that they were not capable of doing English national exam and should do TESOL instead. And when the student insisted on being capable, the Head just said that they were not good enough at English, which was proven wrong (Sime et al, 2022).…”

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“…Schools tend to believe that encounters of white migrants from Central and Eastern European countries were not racialized as physically they are not that different from the white British population compared to Asian and Black people who have historically been discriminated against and racialized here. When youth from Central and Eastern European countries reported that they were exposed to racialization and xenophobia, the system (schools and teachers) simply did not believe they were discriminated against or bullied because of their ethnic origin (Sime et al, 2022).…”

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2022

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Changes in mixed ethnicity households and neighbourhood transitions in England and Wales

Catney,

Ellis,

Wright

2023

Population Space and Place

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Conventional explanations of neighbourhood ethnic transitions consider what drives differential growth in ethnic group populations without regard to household composition. We enrich these nonhousehold approaches by using consistent Census data on neighbourhoods and households for England and Wales for 2001, 2011 and 2021 to analyse connections between mixed‐ethnicity households and neighbourhood ethnic diversity. We employ a neighbourhood typology of ethnic diversity that identifies neighbourhoods as either low‐ or moderate‐diversity, or high‐diversity, where no single ethnic group is in the majority. We focus particularly on White‐majority and highly diverse neighbourhoods given the dominance of the former in residential spaces in England and Wales, and because they are the principal source of transitions to highly diverse neighbourhoods. Mixed‐ethnicity households have become an increasingly important feature of the ethnic diversification of England and Wales; by 2021, almost 15% of multiperson households were mixed, a growth from 12% in 2011 and 9% in 2001. We find that higher levels of neighbourhood ethnic diversity are associated with higher shares of mixed‐ethnicity households. In high‐diversity neighbourhoods, for example, around 30% of multiperson households (nearly a quarter of a million households) were ethnically mixed in 2021. Levels of household mixing in moderate‐diversity White neighbourhoods were considerably higher than in low‐diversity White neighbourhoods. The same is found for diversifying neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods that become more ethnically diverse were typically home to higher rates of mixed‐ethnicity households. Stably moderately diverse White neighbourhoods also had a higher proportion of mixed households. Studies of neighbourhood transition that focus on individuals in neighbourhoods may be missing important processes operating in the intimate spaces of the home. Including this intermediate scale of analysis adds to our understanding of neighbourhood ethnic mixing and processes of integration.

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Performing whiteness: Central and Eastern European young people’s experiences of xenophobia and racialisation in the UK post-Brexit

Cited by 15 publications

References 38 publications

Marginalized (non)citizens: migrant youth political engagement, volunteering and performative citizenship in the context of Brexit

Marginalized (non)citizens: migrant youth political engagement, volunteering and performative citizenship in the context of Brexit

Conversations: Yulia Nesterova with Marta Moskal

Changes in mixed ethnicity households and neighbourhood transitions in England and Wales

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