Brexit and the Migrant Voice provides a platform for the perspectives of European citizens and migrants living and working in the UK by assessing their representation in British and European cultural productions (literature, drama, the media) and by foregrounding their attitudes, their fears, and their concerns about Brexit.
The book looks at Brexit through the eyes of Britain’s European citizens (‘Europe in Britain’), while also looking at European perceptions of Britain as a nation (‘Britain in Europe’), via a geographical journey – from West to East –across Europe. The book assesses how these countries, their citizens, and their cultural productions engage with the questions and challenges posed by Brexit. It brings together an exciting line-up of European academics and scholars, both early-career and well-established, from a variety of subject disciplines. Some live and work within UK Higher Education Institutions and thus look at Britain from within, while others reside within their countries of origin and look at Britain from the outside. Their chapters assess Brexit via a plethora of cultural outputs – Brexit fiction from their individual countries, opinion pieces, press discussions, but also narratives of compatriots affected by the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. The authors’ individual focal points on fiction, journalism, blog posts, theatre performances, and other cultural productions offer an innovative and comprehensive picture about thoughts on Brexit from around Europe that will fill an important gap in the market.
This book will appeal to the academic market at undergraduate, postgraduate, and academic researcher level in a wide variety of disciplines including Literature, Politics and International Relations, European Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Sociology, and Media Studies.
Author(s): Christine Berberich
Series: Popular Culture and World Politics
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 228
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes On Contributors
Part I Introduction
Introduction: Brexit and the (Lack Of) the Migrant Voice
References
Part II Europe in Britain and Britain in Europe: A European Journey
1 Intimate Borders: Brexit and Ireland
The View From Ireland/Northern Ireland
Bordering Brexit
Notes
References
2 Europe in Britain: The Marginalised Voices of EU Migrants in Contemporary British Brexlit
Brexit and Contemporary British Literature
Brexit and European ‘Others’
Britons Vs ‘Others’ – John Lanchester’s Metaphor of Brexit
Conclusion
Notes
References
3 ‘We’re All EU Citizens, But Some Are More Migrants Than Others’: The Impact of Brexit On the Portuguese...
From EU Citizens to EU Immigrants – Changing Rhetoric On Free Movement and Its Impact On EU Citizens Residing in the UK
Overview of the Portuguese Community Residing in the United Kingdom
The Impact of Brexit On the Portuguese Community
Conclusion
Notes
References
4 Disorientated Voices Over Brexit: The Spanish Experience
Anxiety and Disorientation: The Spanish Community in Britain
Brexit and Covid: Disorientation Magnified
The Case of La Línea De Concepción
Translating Cultural Disorientation
Conclusion
Notes
References
5 Italian Brexit Blues
BrexLit – Here and There
Città Irreale, Impossible Dreams and Difficult Relationships
The Shadow of Thatcherism and the Plight of the Migrant Working Class
Brexit Blues and the Communality of Destiny
Conclusion
Notes
References
6 Splendid Consultation: Jochen Buchsteiner Reports On Brexit and Britain
Migration
Hate Crimes
The Political Process and the Rise of Boris Johnson
Conclusion
References
7 Responses to Brexit in Finnish Popular Culture
Brexit as Bordering
Writing Brexit: Politicians and Journalists
Reporting Brexit
Writing Everyday Brexits: Finnish Migrant Bloggers in Britain
Satirising Brexit
Conclusion: Towards a Finnish Migrant Voice
Note
References
8 The Eastern European ‘Other’ in Literary Representations of Lithuanian Im/Migrants in Britain
Lithuanian Migrant Literature
Picking Fruit and Fighting for a Place: Julija Miliute’s Autobiographical Novels
Restaurants, Independence and Emancipation: Giedre Biliotaviciute
Immigrants and Crime: Kristina Baubinaite
Concluding Thoughts
Note
References
9 The Contribution of Polish Writers to the Brexit Debate
British-Polish Relations Over the Centuries
British Attitudes to Mass Migration
Every Man Is a Lonely Island: British Isolationism, Euroscepticism and Nostalgia for the Imperial Past
Globalists Vs Nationalists
The British Vs. the ‘Others’: The Question of National Identity
How Have Polish Migrant Writers Contributed to the Debate On Brexit?
Notes
References
10 The Voice of the Third Party: Brexit in Romanian ‘Migrature’
Warning of Brexit: Romanian Immigrants in a Happy Multicultural Land
Gastarbeiter: Living the Brexit Imbroglio
On the Therapist’s Couch: Turning Brexit Into a Domestic Fight
From Brexitolalia to Nomadosophia
References
11 Russian Writers On Brexit in 2019
Voice No. 1
Voice No. 2
Voice No. 3
Voice No. 4
(Instead of A) Conclusion
References
Part III Epilogue
Epilogue: On Shit-Dollop Lane
Reference
Index
