an article by Derek McGhee (Keele University, UK; University of Southampton, UK), Chris Moreh (York St. John University, UK; University of Southampton, UK) and Athina Vlachantoni (University of Southampton, UK) published in The British Journal of Sociology Volume 70 Issue 4 (September 2019)
Abstract
This article examines the narrative strategies through which Polish migrants in the UK challenge the formal rights of political membership and attempt to redefine the boundaries of ‘citizenship’ along notions of deservedness.
The analysed qualitative data originate from an online survey conducted in the months before the 2016 EU referendum, and the narratives emerge from the open‐text answers to two survey questions concerning attitudes towards the referendum and the exclusion of resident EU nationals from the electoral process.
The analysis identifies and describes three narrative strategies in reaction to the public discourses surrounding the EU referendum – namely discursive complicity, intergroup hostility and defensive assertiveness – which attempt to redefine the conditions of membership in Britain's ‘ethical community’ in respect to welfare practices. Examining these processes simultaneously ‘from below’ and ‘from outside’ the national political community, the paper argues, can reveal more of the transformation taking place in conceptions of citizenship at the sociological level, and the article aims to identify the contours of a ‘neoliberal communitarian citizenship’ as internalized by mobile EU citizens.
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Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Brexit: Blame it on the banking crisis
a column by Nicholas Crafts for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Brexit in 2019 and the banking crisis in 2007 to 2009 are usually seen as unrelated events.
This column argues that they are in fact closely connected.
The austerity policies embarked on in response to the fiscal damage resulting from the banking crisis triggered the protest votes of left-behind voters, which at the margin allowed Leave to win the referendum vote. The implication is that the economic costs of the banking crisis are much larger than is usually supposed.
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Brexit in 2019 and the banking crisis in 2007 to 2009 are usually seen as unrelated events.
This column argues that they are in fact closely connected.
The austerity policies embarked on in response to the fiscal damage resulting from the banking crisis triggered the protest votes of left-behind voters, which at the margin allowed Leave to win the referendum vote. The implication is that the economic costs of the banking crisis are much larger than is usually supposed.
Continue reading
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