Long read: let's ditch the stereotypes about Britons who live in the EU

O'Reilly, Karen and Benson, Michaela (2018) Long read: let's ditch the stereotypes about Britons who live in the EU. LSE Brexit (01 Oct 2018). Website.

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Abstract

Our images of Britons living in the rest of the EU are dominated by twin stereotypes: the sun-seeking, patriotic pensioner in Spain and the upper-middle-class English couple renovating a Dordogne property. Karen O'Reilly and Michaela Benson (Goldsmiths University of London) make a plea for the true complexity and diversity of the British diaspora to be recognised, and explain how these stereotypes feed into a wider notion of migrancy as deviant and problematic.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/10/01/long-read...
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Authors
Divisions:	European Institute Government School of Public Policy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Date Deposited:	17 Jan 2019 09:58
Last Modified:	10 Sep 2025 06:44
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/91940

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