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Brexit provides an excellent opportunity to examine how the formal (state) and informal (social) processes of border-making relate to each other and play out in the everyday life of those impacted by this historic change. The prolonged uncertainty has already had an impact on the lives of intra-European migrants at multiple levels: for their legal status and rights as residents, for their work opportunities and career prospects, for identity and the sense of belonging to their host societies – be they the UK for the EU migrants or any of the other EU countries for the Brits.
This online seminar is an opportunity to discuss the impact of the process from a migrant perspective. It presents up-to-date findings on this exceptional time and focuses on processes of embedding, place-making, migration trajectories and the emotional experience of Brexit.
PROGRAMME (all times Finnish time, UTC +2)
10:00 Opening words
10:10-10:30 Tiina Sotkasiira, University of Eastern Finland
Ties that bind, or ties that count? Brexit, EU nationals and the politics of embedding
10:30-10:50 Evi-Carita Riikonen, University of Eastern Finland
The Unexpected Place: Brexit referendum and the disruptions to translocal
place-making among Finns in the UK
10:50-11:10 Nicol Savinetti, University of Copenhagen
Exceptional times, exceptional data? A reflexive discussion on the Brits in Europe survey
11:10-11:45 Discussion and questions (~ 35 min)
LUNCH BREAK
13:00-13:20 Peter Holley, University of Helsinki
Cut Adrift - Migrancy and emotional experience of Brexit
13:20-13:40 Saara Koikkalainen, University of Eastern Finland
Brexit and migration trajectories of young Europeans in London
13:40-14:00 Discussion and questions (~20 min)
14:00 Closing words
The seminar is free of charge and open to researchers, students, and other interested participants. If you would like to attend, please send an email to britsinbrexiteu@gmail.com by 4 pm Tuesday, 10
November. The Zoom link will be sent to registered participants on Wednesday 11.11.2020.
Please feel free to contact us if have any questions.
Saara Koikkalainen, saara.koikkalainen(at)uef.fi and Tiina Sotkasiira, tiina.sotkasiira(at)uef.fi
Please see more on https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/group/brexit-migration-and-mobility/
The seminar is supported by VERA Center for Russian and Border Studies (UEF).
The event is part of the activities of Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters (BOMOCULT) research community.
