Brexit, British People of Colour in the EU-27 and everyday racism in Britain and Europe

Benson, Michaela and Lewis, Chantelle. 2019. Brexit, British People of Colour in the EU-27 and everyday racism in Britain and Europe. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42(13), pp. 2211-2228. ISSN 0141-9870 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

This paper foregrounds an understanding of Brexit as unexceptional, as business as usual in Britain and Europe. It reports on original empirical research with British People of Colour who have settled elsewhere in Europe, to bring into view an original perspective to understandings of what Brexit means to Britons living in Europe, and to consider what these testimonies offer to emerging social science research on Brexit. As we argue, focussing on the testimonies of British People of Colour living in the EU-27 offers a unique lens into how Brexit is caught up in everyday racism, personal experiences of racialization and racial violence, and longer European histories of racialization and racism. Importantly, these experiences precede and succeed Brexit, taking place in both Britain and other European Union countries.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1599134

Additional Information:

This research reported in this paper was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council through the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative [Grant Number ES/R000875/1].

Keywords:

Brexit, citizens’ rights, British People of Colour, British migration, racialization, everyday racism

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
18 March 2019Accepted
10 April 2019Published Online
2019Published

Item ID:

26060

Date Deposited:

11 Apr 2019 09:40

Last Modified:

09 Dec 2020 19:05

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/26060

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