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"Nicole and Hemmo have two children. Our team visited them at home just a few
days before they moved to the Netherlands. Piles of boxes filled every room of
the house, ready to be shipped over the coming days. Althought they had lived
in the UK for several years, Brexit forced them to reassess where their
family’s future lay.
Nicole, who is German and has two children, told us:
Leaving feels like a funeral, because you don’t realise what’s going to
happen until too late, because you’re so busy with doing things beforehand,
preparing for it and then once it has happened, you only realise weeks and
weeks later what you lost, what you’re missing.
The whole family had agreed to leave the UK but choosing a destination proved
more laborious, not least because “going back home” was not an option – at
least not for everyone at the same time. Nicole is originally from Germany, her
husband Hemmo is Dutch and her children were born in the UK.
Nicole’s family, like thousands in the UK, embodied the EU aspiration of a
pan-European citizenry, moving across multiple nations and settling together in
another. These families had to come to terms with what the UK’s 2016 decision
to leave the EU meant for them and their future.
But leaving was rarely straightforward. Exit trajectories, our research
recently published in
The Sociological Review shows, are far from linear.
They often require numerous adjustments based on the configuration of the
family unit. Our study delves deep into these untold stories revealing a
complex web of hopes, challenges, sacrifices and entanglements."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
