The Return of Citizenship? An Empirical Assessment of Legal Integration in Times of Radical Sociolegal Transformation

Moreh, Chris; McGhee, Derek; Vlachantoni, Athina

doi:10.1177/0197918318809924

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“…2 These investigations provide detailed descriptions of the situation and reactions of migrants during and after the Brexit referendum. Further studies examined the impact of the Brexit referendum on return migration intentions (McGhee, Moreh, and Vlachantoni 2017;Mohr 2020) and on legal integration (Moreh, McGhee, and Vlachantoni 2020). However, none of these studies investigates whether migrants have turned their back on Britain and returned to their countries of origin.…”

Section: How the Brexit Process Unsettles Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Naturalisation has been another evident response of EU-migrants in the UK and of British nationals in the EU to the uncertainties arising from the Brexit referendum (Auer and Tetlow 2020;Lulle et al 2019Lulle et al , 2018Mazzilli and King 2019;Moreh et al 2020). Figure 2 shows the number of German naturalisations in the UK and the corresponding number of British naturalisations in Germany between 2009 and 2019.…”

Section: Migration Between Germany and The Ukmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lulle et al 2018). If we take non-representative findings as suggestive (McGhee et al 2017;Moreh et al 2020), consolidation of status either through naturalisation or through permanent residence certificates (PRC) is German migrants' preferred strategy. The increased number of naturalisations substantiates this finding (see above, figure 2).…”

Section: Understanding Return Migration Under Brexit Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Accordingly, Guma and Jones (2018) found that return migration was not an option after Brexit for migrants from Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, and Portugal who stayed for extended periods in the UK (see also Brahic and Lallement 2020). Moreover, young migrants -who are likely to have stayed in the UK only for short periods -are less inclined to apply for permanent residence (Moreh et al 2020). Altogether, we assume that Germans who lived for a short period in the UK are more likely to return to Germany on account of Brexit than those who spent several years in the UK.…”

Section: Understanding Return Migration Under Brexit Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Who blames Brexit for their decision to leave the UK? The departure of skilled Germans from Britain after the referendum

Stawarz¹,

Witte²

2021

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Although the referendum on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union—better known by its portmanteau Brexit—had no immediate legal consequences for migrants, the changed public atmosphere and looming consequences for their status are creating uncertainty among migrants in the UK. This article analyses the impact of Brexit on Germans who lived in the UK and returned to Germany in 2017/18. Our analysis relies on the first wave of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS), a novel probability-based sample of German return migrants from the EU member countries. The results show that more than half of German return migrants from the UK are strongly affected by Brexit. Furthermore, those who returned on account of Brexit are more likely to blame the political situation, the lack of social security, and their dissatisfaction with life in their host country than those who did not return on account of Brexit – or than those returning from other EU15 member countries. In sum, our results indicate that Brexit may have the unintended consequence of driving out skilled and socio-culturally more integrated migrants who had been living in the UK for several years.

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Section: How the Brexit Process Unsettles Migrantsmentioning

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Who blames Brexit for their decision to leave the UK? The departure of skilled Germans from Britain after the referendum

Stawarz¹,

Witte²

2021

Preprint

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“…A study of EU nationals in the UK, a former EU member state, could complement the existing literature by providing insight into naturalization decision-making among Western citizens for whom it may be less evident what constitutes "premium" citizenship (Fernandez-Reino and Sumption 2020). Our article also builds on recent studies on Brexit and EU/UK citizens that have examined citizenship strategies both in the UK context for EU citizens (Moreh, McGhee, and Vlachantoni 2020;Sredanovic 2020) and in the EU context for British citizens (Benson and Lewis 2019;Benson 2020).…”

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Intergenerational narratives of citizenship among EU citizens in the UK after the Brexit referendum

Godin

Sigona

2021

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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The share of British naturalization applications by EU citizens increased in the aftermath of the 2016 EU referendum. This article offers unique insights into the range of motivations informing decisions to become British or not among EU families from new and old EU member states. It contributes to scholarship on migrants' lived experiences of naturalization by adopting a family-centred approach to explore intergenerational and intersectional dynamics in citizenship decision making. Naturalization involves personal and collective reckoning with a sense of loss of status and imagined future. We argue that rather than a "premium", naturalization is framed by many EU citizens as a response to a perceived loss of status (defensive narrative) and threat (protective narrative). This process is mediated and negotiated within the household, and the narratives of naturalization are embedded in participants' social positioning and shaped by their social statuses and senses of entitlement.

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Citizenship and Naturalisation for Migrants in the UK After Brexit

Fernández-Reino

Sumption

2023

IMISCOE Research Series

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While immigration has played a major role in public debate in the UK over the past twenty years, citizenship and naturalisation have received much less attention. Polling data have suggested that the UK public is broadly supportive of the idea of giving long-term migrants the opportunity to become UK citizens (British Future, 2020). The UK Home Office, in its 2019 Indicators of Integration Framework, described citizenship as an “important bedrock to the integration of any individual in a society” (Ndofor-Tah et al., 2019: 18). Indeed, there is some evidence that becoming a citizen has a positive impact on economic and social integration. For example, the OECD (2011) found that naturalisation was associated with labour market outcomes of many groups of foreign nationals in France, Germany, Sweden and the United States, particularly for the most disadvantaged. Studies from Switzerland and Germany have also shown positive social and economic impacts of naturalisation (Hainmueller et al., 2017; Gathmann & Keller, 2018; but see also Bartram, 2019); and that those who naturalise increase their attachment to British Identity (Bartram, 2021).

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The Return of Citizenship? An Empirical Assessment of Legal Integration in Times of Radical Sociolegal Transformation

Cited by 10 publications

References 39 publications

Who blames Brexit for their decision to leave the UK? The departure of skilled Germans from Britain after the referendum

Who blames Brexit for their decision to leave the UK? The departure of skilled Germans from Britain after the referendum

Intergenerational narratives of citizenship among EU citizens in the UK after the Brexit referendum

Citizenship and Naturalisation for Migrants in the UK After Brexit

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