TY - JOUR
T1 - Brexit, Europe and othering
AU - Van Der Zwet, Arno
AU - Leith, Murray Stewart
AU - Sim, Duncan
AU - Boyle, Elizabeth
N1 - Funding Information:
This work reported in this paper was carried out as part of the ‘RU EU? A game-based approach to exploring 21st century European Identity and Values’ project. This project is partially supported by a KA203 Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education grant (Grant agreement no: 2017-1-UK01-KA203-036601) and is a collaboration between the University of the West of Scotland, the Open University of the Netherlands, Tehničko veleučilište u Zagrebu (Croatia), the University of Peloponnese (Greece) and Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik Gmbh (Germany).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/12/29
Y1 - 2020/12/29
N2 - The UK has seen, within recent years, a noticeable increase in Euroscepticism, culminating in the vote to leave the European Union altogether. Although there were many reasons for the Brexit vote, the UK, in common with some other EU countries, had become increasingly concerned about rising levels of immigration, particularly from within the EU. This has led to an increase in a process of Othering those of a different background, nationality or religion, and ultimately the EU itself. This article seeks to explore aspects of othering of the EU in the UK, partly in the light of the Brexit vote. It focuses on the role of the media and political elites in this process. The article draws from secondary sources and sets out a research agenda based on seeking to understand the othering process of the EU, within the UK that requires further empirical research.
AB - The UK has seen, within recent years, a noticeable increase in Euroscepticism, culminating in the vote to leave the European Union altogether. Although there were many reasons for the Brexit vote, the UK, in common with some other EU countries, had become increasingly concerned about rising levels of immigration, particularly from within the EU. This has led to an increase in a process of Othering those of a different background, nationality or religion, and ultimately the EU itself. This article seeks to explore aspects of othering of the EU in the UK, partly in the light of the Brexit vote. It focuses on the role of the media and political elites in this process. The article draws from secondary sources and sets out a research agenda based on seeking to understand the othering process of the EU, within the UK that requires further empirical research.
KW - Brexit
KW - European Union
KW - identity
KW - migration
KW - othering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098658724&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/21582041.2020.1851393
DO - 10.1080/21582041.2020.1851393
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098658724
SN - 2158-2041
VL - 15
SP - 517
EP - 532
JO - Contemporary Social Science
JF - Contemporary Social Science
IS - 5
ER -
