Brexit and the Migrant Voice

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.

Autorentext

Christine Berberich is a Reader in Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published widely in the field of Holocaust Studies, as well as on National Identity Construction, in particular Englishness.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

Part I: Introduction Introduction: Brexit and the (Lack of) the Migrant Voice Part II: Europe in Britain and Britain in Europe: A European Journey 1. Intimate Borders: Brexit and Ireland 2. Europe in Britain: The Marginalised Voices of EU Migrants in Contemporary British Brexlit 3. 'We're All EU Citizens, But Some Are More Migrants Than Others': The Impact of Brexit on the Portuguese Community Residing in the United Kingdom 4. Disoriented Voices over Brexit: The Spanish Experience 5. Italian Brexit Blues 6. Splendid Consultation: Jochen Buchsteiner Reports on Brexit and Britain 7. Responses to Brexit in Finnish Popular Culture 8. The Eastern European "Other" in Literary Representations of Lithuanian Im/Migrants in Britain 9. The Contribution of Polish Writers to the Brexit Debate 10. The Voice of the Third Party: Brexit in Romanian "Migrature" 11. Russian Writers on Brexit in 2019 Part III: Epilogue Epilogue: On Shit-Dollop Lane