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TY - JOUR
T1 - Brexit and the Classed Politics of Bordering
T2 - The British in France and European Belongings
AU - Benson, Michaela
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Brexit
KW - British in France
KW - bordering
KW - hierarchies of belonging
KW - European Citizenship
KW - intra-EU migration
U2 - 10.1177/0038038519885300
DO - 10.1177/0038038519885300
M3 - Journal article
VL - 54
SP - 501
EP - 517
JO - Sociology
JF - Sociology
SN - 0038-0385
IS - 3
ER -