BRAD · Brexit and Deportations: towards a comprehensive and transnational understanding of a new system targeting EU citizens
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2018-11-01 → 2020-10-31
- EU contribution
- €195,455
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Results in brief
Brexit and Deportations: towards a comprehensive and transnational understanding of a new system targeting EU citizens
With the exit from the European Union, freedom of movement is ending in the United Kingdom and BRAD traced this process. More precisely, the topic of the research projects were deportations of EU citizens or forced return migrations organised by the UK state authorities. The project captured the process of UK exiting the European Union and also the unexpected but important for the studied context – the Covid-19 global pandemic that has largely affected international migration but has not stopped deportations of EU citizens. The topic of the BRAD research is important because of two reasons. First, changing immigration policies affect the lives of over three million EU citizens and their families who had settled in the UK, often before UK decided to abandon the principle of the freedom of movement. The popularisation of project results helped to inform EU citizens about their future predicament. Second, this study is revelant for its theoretical value, as it captured the moment of the inception of the new UK deportation system targeting a so-far privileged community, before the end of the Brexit transition period vulnerable to deportation only under very specific conditions (former convicts and – between 2016 and 2017 – rough sleepers).
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Project objective
With Brexit and the abandonment of the free movement and residence principle, the UK will define its new immigration policy concerning EU nationals. The new immigration policies will aim to control and circumscribe the mobility of the citizens of the EU member states, currently free to travel, live and work in the UK. They may also be returned or deported only under very specific circumstances. Following Brexit, those who will not comply with the new regulations will become deportable. The aim of the project is to research the implementation of the new UK deportation system concerning EU nationals. The fellow will propose a comprehensive approach to the UK deportation regime, taking into account its various components: (1) immigration policies, (2) agencies that enforce them, (3) public debate that accompanies changes in migration policies and their implementation, (4) migrants that become deportable and are deported, as well as (5) return migrants and stayers back in sending countries who consider migrating to the UK and who adjust their (im)mobility strategies according to, or resisting, migration policies. The project assumes that the deportation regime is a transnational phenomenon, since it concerns not only people in migrant-receiving countries, but also in migrant-sending counties. The research offers an analysis of the largest migrant group in the UK, the Poles. The case of the Polish migrants will offer an insight into how the transnational UK deportation regime becomes rooted among migrants and develops back in their hometown communities. The project draws upon interdisciplinary qualitative methodologies, including multi-sited ethnography, Critical Discourse Analysis of media, and legal analysis. Its outcomes will reach EU, UK and Polish policy makers, influential think tanks, the academic community and the general public.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON · WolverhamptonCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
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Data: CORDIS, © European Union