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Did you know that the numbers of British citizens emigrating to the EU27 has increased since the #Brexit referendum? Here's me writing about what this tells us about #emigration 1/ https://ukandeu.ac.uk/emigration-in-brexit-times-why-are-british-citizens-moving-to-the-eu/
My piece builds on a new discussion paper from @WZB_Berlin co-authored by @daniel__auer & @BritsinGermany Daniel Tetlow doing the statistical analysis that proves increased numbers and highlights the significance of Brexit in emigration narratives 2/ https://bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2020/vi20-102.pdf
I call (once again) for more finegrained statistics abt #britsinEU (actually not just Europe) to help us understand what #Brexit might be doing to the demographic profile of Britain's emigrants. If I sound like a broken record, it's because I am ... 3/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46632854
I argue that while changing legal status and dissatisfaction with the UK offer context, we need to look at how this interplays with personal circumstances, material and embodied, interpersonal negotiations, projections and imaginings of life elsewhere 4/
Simply, not everyone who is dissatisfied about Brexit is emigrating, so we need to ask what the conditions and circumstances are that mean some people can / are emigrating at this time? And what does this then do to the demographic profile? 5/
Final point: for a country with a high & sustained rate of emigration (to the point where I think that everyone knows a British citizen who lives in elsewhere in the world), it is remarkable that there is so little knowledge about Britain's emigrants 6/6 https://discoversociety.org/2019/02/06/focus-brexit-and-rethinking-the-british-in-europe/
