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Rebordering Britain & Britons after Brexit

Mapping social science research on Brexit and migration

46 articles published 2023

Older British migrants in Spain: Return patterns and intentions post-Brexit
After the Brexit referendum results, there may have been fears that a significant part of the British population in Spain, one of the largest outside the Commonwealth, would return to the United Kingdom. This paper uses different sources to assess whether, on the one hand…
'I haven't met one': disabled EU migrants in the UK. Intersections between migration and disability post-Brexit
Historically, disability studies have ignored the experiences of people who migrate, while migration studies frequently excluded disabled people. This is a surprising omission from both fields of study given that many disabled people are migrants, and many migrants are disabled people.
Expecting Brexit and UK migration: Should I go?
This paper examines the impact of the 2016 UK referendum and expecting Brexit on migration flows and net migration in the UK. We employ a Difference-in-Differences strategy and compare EU migration to non-EU migration before and immediately after the UK referendum of June 2016.
Migrant dentists, health system responses and future challenges: a case study of the United Kingdom and Australia
Dentists, managing highly prevalent oral disease are in demand across the world and hence potentially highly mobile. Both the United Kingdom and Australia, continue to be favourable destinations for migrant dentists.
Linking embeddedness to physical career mobility: How Brexit affected the preference of business, economics and management academics for leaving the UK
In this study, we use embeddedness and boundaryless career perspectives to investigate the extent to which Britain's withdrawal from the European Union ('Brexit') led business, economics and management academics to consider emigrating.
Living in a hostile country: the 'Migrant' and 'Unbelonging' in contemporary Brexit literature
This article will assess the situation of migrant 'others' in Britain post-Brexit. It will develop my established research interests in the situation of EU citizens in the UK in a new direction by looking at the impact Brexit has had on non-EU citizens living in the UK.
When (EU) migration came to Great Yarmouth
This article examines the impact of EU migration on Great Yarmouth, a coastal town in Norfolk, England. Great Yarmouth had the fifth highest 'leave' vote nationally in the UK Brexit referendum, at over 70%. In this article…
Retailer and grower relationships and the supply chain pressures in English horticulture: The lived experience
This research paper examines the pressurised relationship between growers and retailers in the English horticultural supply chain and the associated impact on labour. Although there is some literature detailing the supply chain there is little current published data…
Uncertainty and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brexit
Immigrant entrepreneurs are a major driver of economic growth, and their decisions about where to locate can greatly affect the entrepreneurial ecosystem of a country. Meanwhile…
The role of satisfaction in labor diaspora dynamics: An analysis of BREXIT effects
In diaspora research, people's international mobility is often understood as a response to pull-push forces on an economic macro-level or as part of diasporic waves. However, labor diaspora formations are also influenced by micro-level (i.e., individual perceptions) drivers related to work per se…