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Brexit Brits Abroad

Issue 8, April 2017

What's new from the project?

April has been a busy month, and it's not over yet! Michaela is back from France and taking stock of where we are with the project. Across the project team we have conducted close to 150 interviews to date with UK citizens living across the EU27; our citizens' panel now numbers over 180 people with new requests for participation coming in on a daily basis. And in between that, we have been analysing, writing and podcasting.

Here's the headlines:

We published the report, co-authored with Migration Policy Institute, Next steps: implementing a Brexit deal for UK citizens living in the EU-27;
The research made its way into the Telegraph, with this piece authored by Michaela about the no man's land inhabited both by UK citizens living in the EU27 and local government officials and agencies responsible for these populations;
Michaela wrote this piece for the LSE Brexit Blog in which she writes about counteracting stereotypes of UK citizens abroad, remembering that nearly 80% of this population are working age and below, anyhow people understand and utilise Freedom of Movement;
In response to the recent report from the Office of National Statistics about UK citizens abroad affected by Brexit, Karen wrote this article for the Conversation in which she highlights the mysterious case of the missing Brits abroad, the politics of official statistics and the need for population estimates to include expert and insider knowledge;
While the Next Steps report made its way into Financial Times and the Telegraph Brexit Briefings on Thursday 19th April, our research has also been reported in the Sur in English and in the Big Issue North this month;
And on top of all that, we released Episode 21 of the podcast, where Professor Mary GIlmartin talked with Michaela about the invisibility of UK citizens in Ireland within Irish migration policy and discourse.

What's coming up?

Keep an eye out this Friday for our latest podcast. Michaela will be talking with Aliyyah Ahad (Migration Policy Institute Europe) about her experience of talking with local and national government officials in France, Spain, Germany, Cyprus, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden about what they thought Brexit would mean for the UK citizens who have made their home and lives in these member states.

There's quite a lot in progress that we expect to be out in the next couple of months—new reports, from Karen on her research in Spain, from Katherine and Chantelle about the representation of UK citizens living overseas in UK parliament, and from me about the research I have just completed in Toulouse. Mike has also been working on a set of blogposts about talking Brexit with younger UK citizens living in Granada, and we have several pieces that we are working on with the Conversation.

So watch this space.

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