From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants

Benson, Michaela and Sigona, Nando and Zambelli, Elena and Craven, Catherine (2022) From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants. Migration Studies, 10 (2). pp. 374-390. ISSN 2049-5838

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Abstract

What has Brexit meant for migration and migrants? How has the geopolitical repositioning of the UK in consequence of the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) impacted on the experiences of long-established migrant communities and newly arrived migrants? In what ways are the impacts of Brexit differentially experienced across migrant communities according to, inter alia, class, gender, age, country of origin, disability, and race? How has migration scholarship addressed Brexit and its impact on migration and migration governance? And what has been the significance of migration research within this project? This critical review of migration studies scholarship literature focussed on Brexit and migration, we draw out the dominant themes and gaps in this emergent field and consider how these reconfigure the ‘spotlights’ and ‘blindspots’ in migration research from methodological nationalism to. In this way, we identify the potential for new lines of enquiry for research on Brexit and migration.