Rebordering Britain & Britons after Brexit
Brexit and the EU Settlement Scheme: Continuity and rupture with the European Union
Abstract
The EU Settlement Scheme, a product of Brexit, both continues and breaks with the EU legacy, offering dismantlement for the vulnerable and continuity for the rest. In its attempt to keep the rights of EEA and Swiss citizens as close to their EU format as possible, it borrows from Directive 2004/38 and, in doing so, manages to enhance the conditionality ingrained in the Directive, discriminating against the most vulnerable. At the same time, by breaking with the EU legacy, it also moves the most vulnerable even farther away from the ideal of an unconditional right to return. Through an exploratory opt-in online survey, I observe the Scheme’s intrinsic tension of offering both continuity and dismantlement and the emergence of some vulnerability traits. Non-linear employment histories, older age, and lower levels of educational attainment enhance the difficulty of the process and create the prospects for disentitlement. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
You might also be interested in :
The EU Settlement Scheme: Footprints in quicksand
Part of an accelerated trend to integrate algorithms in immigration decision-making, the UK's EU Settlement Scheme relies on automated data checks as an essential and mandatory step in the application for UK residence. In this article…
Racialisation, the EU Referendum result and sentiments of belonging in the UK: a consideration of Roma populations
This article reports on a qualitative study with migrant Roma communities in South Yorkshire, UK. The study was undertaken shortly after the 2016 European Union membership referendum in the UK.
Politicisation of migration issues during the refugee crisis in the UK and Denmark
This article addresses the patterns of politicisation of migration and its implications for European integration, investigating the refugee crisis that coincided with the EU referendums in the UK and Denmark. In this framework, we distinguish three patterns of politicisation -domestic…
(Br)exit citizenship: belonging, rights and participation
This paper offers an in-depth analysis of perceptions of (Br)exit citizenship, integrating key themes of European Union (EU) mobile and political citizenship, along belonging, rights and participation. It draws on a series of original…