@article {739,
	title = {The Emotional Geographies of Migration and Brexit: Tales of Unbelonging},
	journal = {Central and Eastern European Migration Review},
	volume = {9},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {29-45},
	chapter = {29},
	abstract = {<p>This article focuses on the emotionality of belonging among European Union (EU) citizens in the context of the United Kingdom\&rsquo;s (UK) 2016 referendum and its result in favour of the UK leaving the EU, commonly referred to as Brexit. Drawing from testimonies of EU27 citizens in the UK (mainly mid- to long-term residents) published in a book and on blog and Twitter accounts by the not-for-profit and non-political initiative, the \&lsquo;In Limbo Project\&rsquo;, it explores a range of emotions which characterise the affective impact of Brexit and how they underpin two key processes disrupting the sense of belonging of EU citizens: the acquisition of \&lsquo;migrantness\&rsquo; and the non-recognition of the contributions and efforts made to belong. The resulting narratives are characterised by senses of \&lsquo;unbelonging\&rsquo;, where processes of social bonding and membership are disrupted and \&lsquo;undone\&rsquo;. These processes are characterised by a lack of intersubjective recognition in the private, legal and communal spheres, with ambivalent impacts on EU citizens\&rsquo; longer-term plans to stay or to leave and wider implications for community relations in a post-Brexit society.</p>},
	keywords = {Brexit, emotions, EU citizens, recognition, unbelonging},
	issn = {2300-1682},
	doi = {10.17467/ceemr.2020.08},
	author = {MasGiralt, Rosa}
}
