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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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:	Date Event 18 March 2019 Accepted 10 April 2019 Published Online 2019 Published
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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