BrExpats: freedom of movement, citizenship and Brexit in the lives of Britons resident in the European Union

英国脱欧对居住在其他欧洲成员国的约200万英国公民（内政部2016年）有什么影响？这是否预示着回归移民的增加，对英国的福利和医疗保健会产生什么影响？如果他们原地不动，英国脱欧及其对英国政策的影响将给欧盟目的地的当地移民治理和监管，以及为海外英国人提供的支持服务带来哪些挑战？最后，在欧洲的英国人如何体验和理解他们的移民、日常生活、公民身份和身份，会产生什么后果？BrExpats将这些担忧作为其调查的核心，研究英国脱欧（随着脱欧进程的展开）对居住在大量英国人居住的欧盟国家的英国人（无论是兼职还是全职）的影响。它围绕三个相互关联的研究问题进行组织：(a)英国脱欧对这些人口的政治权利、社会和经济权利以及公民身份将产生什么影响；随着事态的发展，英国和欧洲的机构参与者将如何理解、沟通、管理和调解这些后果？(b)在一系列国家和地方环境中，居住在欧洲的英国人是如何经历脱欧的；这将以何种方式促使他们重新评估自己的生活和公民身份，重新协商自己的身份，（重新）定位自己与不断变化的欧洲政治现实的关系，导航和管理不断变化的结构条件，这些条件决定了他们继续居住和/或遣返的可能性？(c)这些人群何时以及以何种方式在英国脱欧谈判中发挥作用，他们在政策、媒体和决策中的代表方式又如何影响他们的经历？为了回答这些问题，《英国脱欧人士》将对英国脱欧及其对居住在欧洲的英国人的影响进行社会学理解，并在其交叉点建立并贡献三个社会科学知识领域：(1)欧洲公民身份和身份；(2)移民和移民生活；(3)英国移民。它旨在捕捉将英国脱欧作为一个过程的制度、法律、政策、话语和规范与这些英国人的活动和行动之间正在进行的互动。它综合了PI和高级研究员（O'Reilly）过去对欧洲英国人口的研究（见Benson 2011， O'Reilly 2000），雇用了一个项目团队，包括移民政策研究所（MPI）的顾问和一个专门的研究助理，以开发新的实证研究，结合(a)与英国、欧盟委员会和负责这些英国人口的欧洲成员国的机构行动者的专家访谈；(b)在法国和西班牙（英国人居住最多的国家）进行深入的案例研究，与纵向分析相结合，并辅以由居住在爱尔兰、德国、荷兰、希腊和塞浦路斯的英国人组成的公民小组，这些国家是继法国和西班牙之后英国人口最多的国家（Dennison和Pardijs 2016）；(c)文本、文件、话语、媒体和政策辩论以及决策的解释性分析。学术成果包括2篇会议论文和4篇期刊论文。该项目旨在持续致力于参与活动，并将研究成果传达给从业人员、民间社会组织和政策制定者。传播活动包括(a)一系列播客；(b)主要趋势报告；(c)研究摘要；(d)政策圆桌会议；(e)法国和西班牙英文媒体的文章、移民信息源、对话和开放民主；定期维护的网站和定制的社交媒体策略；(h)快闪展览及图录；(i)为吸引广大读者而与人合著的书。

What are the implications of Brexit for Britain's estimated 2 million citizens (Home Office 2016) resident in other European member states? Will this signal a rise in return migration and with what consequences for welfare and healthcare in the UK? If they stay put, what challenges will Brexit and its impact on Britain's expatiates present for local migration governance and regulation in EU destinations, and for support services for Britons abroad? Finally, what are the consequences for how the British in Europe experience and understand their migration, their everyday lives, citizenship and identities? BrExpats places such concerns at the heart of its enquiries, examining what Brexit - as it unfolds - entails for Britons resident, part- or full-time, in those EU countries hosting the large numbers of Britons. It is organised around three inter-related research questions: (a) What will be the consequences of Brexit for the political rights, social and financial entitlements and citizenship of such populations; how will the consequences be understood, communicated, managed and mediated by institutional actors in Britain and Europe as they unfold? (b) How is Brexit experienced by Britons resident in Europe, across a range of national and local settings; in what ways will this cause them they re-evaluate their lives and citizenship, re-negotiate their identities, (re)position themselves in relation to shifting political realities of Europe, navigate and manage the changing structural conditions that shape the possibilities for their continued residence and/or repatriations? (c) When and in what ways do these populations feature within the Brexit negotiations, and how are their experiences in turn shaped by the ways they are represented in policy, media and decision-making? To respond to these questions, BrExpats will foreground a sociological understanding of Brexit and its impacts on Britons resident in Europe, building on and contributing to three fields of social scientific knowledge at their intersections: (1) European citizenship and identities; (2) migration and migrant lives; and (3) British migration. It is designed to capture the ongoing interaction between the institutions, laws, policies, discourses and norms that frame Brexit as a process, and the activities and actions of these Britons. It synthesises past research by the PI and Senior Research Fellow (O'Reilly) on British populations in Europe (see Benson 2011, O'Reilly 2000), employing a project team including consultants from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and a dedicated research assistant, to developing new empirical research combining (a) expert interviews with institutional actors in Britain, the European Commission, and European Member States with responsibilities for these British population; (b) in-depth case studies in France and Spain-where the largest number of Britons reside-paired with longitudinal analysis and supplemented with citizens' panels comprised of Britons resident in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Greece and Cyprus, countries hosting the largest populations of Britons after France and Spain (Dennison and Pardijs 2016); and (c) interpretive analysis of texts, documents, discourse, media and policy debates, and decision making.Academic outputs will include 2 conference papers and 4 journal articles. The project is designed around an continuous commitment to engagement activity and communicating research outcomes to practitioners, civil society organisations and policy makers. Dissemination activities include (a) a series of podcasts; (b) key trends reports; (c) a research brief; (d) policy roundtable; (e) articles in English language media in France and Spain, Migration Information Source, the Conversation and Open Democracy; (f) regularly maintained website and bespoke social media strategy; (h) pop-up exhibition and catalogue; & (i) a co-authored book, written to appeal to a broad audience.