EU families and 'eurochildren' in Brexiting Britain: renegotiating inclusion, citizenship and belonging

英国作为欧盟成员国已有40年之久。在这段时间里，人们和机构一直混杂在一起，这从英国越来越多的欧盟双国籍和混合国籍家庭及其子女身上可以最明显地看出这一点，他们中的许多人出生在英国，持有英国护照。这是英国社会中一个不断增长、但仍未得到充分研究和报道的群体。在退欧公投后的背景下，有关限制欧盟移民的言论已经渗透到政治、媒体和流行话语中，产生了一种赤裸裸的“我们和他们”的叙事，一个没有被问和没有回答的问题是，如果“我们和他们”是一样的，这种突然的地缘政治转变会带来什么样的人力和情感代价？通过对欧洲儿童及其家庭及其对英国脱欧的经历和反应的研究，该项目旨在描绘一种新的归属政治的出现，这种政治以话语和法律的方式重新配置谁属于后欧盟时代的英国，并为欧盟正式退出欧盟后拥有欧盟27国国民的家庭的移民和定居决策建立未来研究的基线。为了做到这一点，它将：1)概述和绘制在英国的欧盟国民在英国和欧盟出生的子女的人口概况，在总体水平上审查不同类型的欧盟家庭，并衡量他们对英国社会的社会经济包容性。2)调查至少有一个欧盟27个成员国的家庭如何经历和应对脱离欧盟的过程，并确定影响这种反应的因素。3)审查脱欧公投及其后果对不同年龄段的英国出生的欧洲儿童的影响，这个项目特别研究了他们如何表达他们对英国和欧盟的归属感和态度，由移民和融合领域的学术专家、第三部门合作者和法律专家组成的团队，使用混合方法，提供了一个经验丰富和深入的欧盟家庭，通常包括英国和欧盟护照持有者以及拥有双重国籍的成员，他们的经历和计划如何应对英国退欧，这是进一步分析正式退出欧盟后家庭移民决策过程的基线。该项目涉及三个相互关联的工作包(WP)。WP1属于量化性质，它将分析历史人口普查和活产数据，以绘制欧盟家庭及其子女的概况和地理地图。根据欧盟家庭的人口、地理和包容情况，将根据这些数据建立不同的欧盟家庭配置，并将为WP2和WP3中的定性工作以及我们对英国脱欧对这一群体的法律和政策影响的分析提供信息。在WP2中，将对欧盟家庭进行重点小组和深入访谈，以及反身性研究，以探讨退出欧盟背景下的归属问题。在WP3中，将对在英国出生的成年欧洲儿童和在欧盟出生的欧洲儿童的父母进行访谈，以突出儿童经历移民决策和归属感的方式。这项混合方法研究将产生有关欧盟家庭及其在欧盟和在英国出生的孩子的开创性新数据，有助于英国和欧盟政策制定者的战略、政治和政策回应，并有助于就英国和欧盟公民脱欧对英国和欧盟公民的后果进行更知情的公众辩论。该项目包括一项旨在最大化传播和影响的战略。这将通过以下方式实现：提供有力、综合和及时可获得的证据(期刊文章、博客、简报、媒体和在线材料)；从一开始就与研究人员、政策制定者和从业人员的广泛网络接触；并利用量身定制的传播渠道接触相关受众。

The UK has been a member of the European Union for 40 years. Throughout that time there has been intermingling of people and institutions which can be most clearly seen in the growing number of bi- and mixed-nationality EU families in the UK and their children, many of whom born in the UK and holding a British passport. This is a growing, and yet understudied and underreported, segment of the British society. In a post-EU referendum context, where the rhetoric about curbing EU immigration has permeated political, media, and popular discourses, producing a stark 'us and them' narrative, the question left unasked and unanswered is what are the human and emotional costs of this abrupt geopolitical shift if 'us and them' are the same? Through the study of Eurochildren and their families and their experience and responses to Brexit, the project aims to portrait the emergence of a new politics of belonging which reconfigures discursively and legally who belong to a post-EU Britain and establish a baseline for future research on migration and settlement decision making in families with EU27 nationals following the formal exit of the European Union. In order to do so, it will:1) Profile and map the population of UK- and EU-born children of EU nationals in the UK and examine, at the aggregate level, different types of EU families and measure their socio-economic inclusion into British society.2) Investigate how families with at least one EU27 member experience and respond to the process of exiting from the European Union and identify factors that shape such responses.3) Examine the impact of the EU referendum and its aftermath on different age cohorts of UK-born Eurochildren, examining in particular how they articulate their sense of belonging and attitudes vis-á-vis the UK and the EU.With a team comprising academic experts in the fields of migration and integration, third sector collaborators and legal experts, and using a mixed methods approach, this project provides an empirically-rich and in-depth account of how EU families, often including both UK and EU passport holders and members with dual citizenship, experience and plan to respond to Brexit, a baseline from which to further analyse the process family migration decision making following the formal exit from the EU.The project involves three interconnected work packages (WP). WP1, which is of a quantitative nature, will analyse historical Census and Live Birth data in order to profile and geographically map EU families and their children. Different configurations of EU families, based on their demographic, geographical, and inclusion circumstances, will be established via this data and will inform the qualitative work in WP2 and 3 and our analysis of legal and policy implications of Brexit on this population. In WP2 focus groups and in-depth interviews will be conducted with EU families, as well as reflexive research, in order to explore questions of belonging within the context of the exit from the EU. In WP3, interview with UK-born adult Eurochildren and EU-born parents of Eurochildren will be conducted in order to bring to the fore the ways in which children experience migration decision-making and belonging. This mixed methods study will generate ground-breaking new data on EU families and their EU and UK-born children in the UK, contributing to the strategic, political and policy responses of UK and EU policy makers and to a more informed public debate on the consequences of Brexit on UK and EU citizens alike.The project includes a strategy set to maximise dissemination and impact. This will be done via: producing robust, composite and promptly accessible evidence (journal articles, blogs, briefings, media and online materials); engaging from the outset with a wide network of researchers, policy makers and practitioners; and using tailored dissemination channels to reach out to relevant audiences.