EU Children in Brexit Britain: Re‐Negotiating Belonging in Nationalist Times

This article contributes to debates on identification, home and belonging by focusing on EU children in Brexit times.1 The article combines attention to the emotional and affective side of integration with a focus on the effects of the discursive practices of the state on these processes. The articl...

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Published in:International migration 2020-02, Vol.58 (1), p.90-104
Main Authors: Zontini, Elisabetta, Però, Davide
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
Discourses
Discursive practices
EU membership
Migrants
Mobility
Multilingualism
Nationalism
Parents
Parents & parenting
Scrutiny
Transnationalism
Values
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Summary:This article contributes to debates on identification, home and belonging by focusing on EU children in Brexit times.1 The article combines attention to the emotional and affective side of integration with a focus on the effects of the discursive practices of the state on these processes. The article explores how Italian children and their parents navigate the increasingly neo‐assimilationist pressures in Britain. Specifically, it looks at children's ways of accommodating their parents’ values of mobility, multilingualism and transnationalism with the revived nationalist logic now dominant. The article argues for renewed scrutiny into the role of public discourses on migrants’ experiences, which illuminate the redrawing of the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion at moments of crisis.
ISSN:0020-7985
1468-2435
DOI:10.1111/imig.12581