Precarious Citizenship in Brexit Britain
Central and Eastern European Roma in the UK
Owen Parker author Lynzi Duncan author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Publishing:26th Nov '26
£29.99
This title is due to be published on 26th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
What happens when the promise of European free movement collides with the realities of neoliberal governance in Brexit Britain?
This timely study examines the experiences of racialised Roma EU citizens in the UK, focusing on Sheffield and Glasgow before and after Brexit. As the largest and most marginalized ethnic minority in Europe, many Roma viewed EU citizenship as a pathway out of persecution and poverty. Yet their encounters with UK politics and policy revealed the limits of a ‘multi-level’, ‘market’ citizenship.
Combining political theory with grounded empirical research, this book offers vital ethical and policy insights for scholars, practitioners and decision-makers across Europe.
“This text is an extremely important, thoughtful and intellectually rigorous addition to the developing literature on Roma migration to the UK. A particular strength of this carefully crafted book is the longitudinal view of diverse Roma migrant experience in the UK, and how this intersects with the political and policy complexities of multi-level EU citizenship. The lived reality of Roma people, navigating a fractured and fractious post-Brexit Britain in which the ‘hostile environment’ can frighteningly erupt, shines through with clarity, compassion, unflinching honesty, providing plentiful food for thought for the reader.” Margaret Greenfields, Anglia Ruskin University
ISBN: 9781529250480
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240 pages