Ties that bind, or ties that count? The pressure on EU citizens to be ‘deserving’ migrants

Sotkasiira, T. and Gawlewicz, A. (2020) Ties that bind, or ties that count? The pressure on EU citizens to be ‘deserving’ migrants. LSE Brexit Blog, 3 Jul.

Abstract

The things that really bind EU citizens to the UK may not be the same ones that other people, particularly the authorities, perceive as important. Tiina Sotkasiira (University of Eastern Finland) and Anna Gawlewicz (University of Glasgow) look at the difference between ‘ties that bind’ and ‘ties that count’.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: This post is supported by Anna Gawlewicz’s research project ‘Living together in the context of Brexit: Migrant-‘host’ encounters in the East End of Glasgow’ (2017-2019) funded by the Urban Studies Foundation and interview material collected by Tiina Sotkasiira in 2017, when she spent six months at the University of Glasgow as a Visiting Research Fellow.
• Keywords: Migration, Brexit, responses to Brexit, 2016 EU referendum, Polish migrants, Finnish migrants.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: No
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Sotkasiira, Dr Tiina and Gawlewicz, Dr Anna
• Authors: Sotkasiira, T., and Gawlewicz, A.
• Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General); H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General); H Social Sciences > HM Sociology; H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Central and East European Studies; College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies
• Journal Name: LSE Brexit Blog
• Publisher: London School of Economics