Brexit, race and migration
Kathy Burrell
Brexit, race and migration - Sage, 2019. - Vol. 37(1), 2019, (3–40 p.)
This timely series of interventions scrutinizes the centrality of race and migration to 2016
Brexit campaign, vote, and its aftermath. It brings together five individual pieces, with an accompanying introduction, which interrogate different facets of how race, migration, and Brexit interconnect: an examination of the so-called left-behinds and the fundamental intersections between geography, race, and class at the heart of Brexit motivations and contexts; an exploration of
arguably parallel and similarly complex developments in the US with the rise of populism and
support for Donald Trump; an analysis of the role of whiteness in the experiences of East
European nationals in the UK in the face of increased anti-foreigner sentiment and uncertainty
about future status; a discussion of intergenerational differences in outlooks on race and immigration and the sidelining of different people and places in Brexit debates; and a studied critique of
prevailing tropes about Brexit which create divisive classed and raced categories and seek to
oversimplify broader understandings of race, class, and migration. Taken together these articles,
all arguing for the need to eschew easy answers and superficial narratives offer important and
opportune insights into what Brexit tells us about race and migration in the contemporary UK
Brexit,
race,
migration,
class,
place
Brexit, race and migration - Sage, 2019. - Vol. 37(1), 2019, (3–40 p.)
This timely series of interventions scrutinizes the centrality of race and migration to 2016
Brexit campaign, vote, and its aftermath. It brings together five individual pieces, with an accompanying introduction, which interrogate different facets of how race, migration, and Brexit interconnect: an examination of the so-called left-behinds and the fundamental intersections between geography, race, and class at the heart of Brexit motivations and contexts; an exploration of
arguably parallel and similarly complex developments in the US with the rise of populism and
support for Donald Trump; an analysis of the role of whiteness in the experiences of East
European nationals in the UK in the face of increased anti-foreigner sentiment and uncertainty
about future status; a discussion of intergenerational differences in outlooks on race and immigration and the sidelining of different people and places in Brexit debates; and a studied critique of
prevailing tropes about Brexit which create divisive classed and raced categories and seek to
oversimplify broader understandings of race, class, and migration. Taken together these articles,
all arguing for the need to eschew easy answers and superficial narratives offer important and
opportune insights into what Brexit tells us about race and migration in the contemporary UK
Brexit,
race,
migration,
class,
place