Here to Stay: Eastern Europeans in Britain
Bulgarian writer and international migration expert Yva Alexandrova tells the story of Eastern Europeans in the UK, and argues that progressive politics needs to be grounded in migrants’ actual experiences and not political expediency.

She shows how attitudes to immigration have changed in the last twenty years in the wake of Brexit and a new wave of nativism that has swept across Britain, and makes a passionate and vivid argument for migrants as full participants in social and political life.

At a time when racism, xenophobia and nationalism dominate politics in the UK and around the world, Here to Stay avoids the usual racist vox-pops and sensationalist political debate and instead tells the stories of the people whose voices rarely feature in debates about immigration: the migrants themselves.
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Here to Stay: Eastern Europeans in Britain
Bulgarian writer and international migration expert Yva Alexandrova tells the story of Eastern Europeans in the UK, and argues that progressive politics needs to be grounded in migrants’ actual experiences and not political expediency.

She shows how attitudes to immigration have changed in the last twenty years in the wake of Brexit and a new wave of nativism that has swept across Britain, and makes a passionate and vivid argument for migrants as full participants in social and political life.

At a time when racism, xenophobia and nationalism dominate politics in the UK and around the world, Here to Stay avoids the usual racist vox-pops and sensationalist political debate and instead tells the stories of the people whose voices rarely feature in debates about immigration: the migrants themselves.
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Here to Stay: Eastern Europeans in Britain

Here to Stay: Eastern Europeans in Britain

by Yva Alexandrova
Here to Stay: Eastern Europeans in Britain

Here to Stay: Eastern Europeans in Britain

by Yva Alexandrova

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Overview

Bulgarian writer and international migration expert Yva Alexandrova tells the story of Eastern Europeans in the UK, and argues that progressive politics needs to be grounded in migrants’ actual experiences and not political expediency.

She shows how attitudes to immigration have changed in the last twenty years in the wake of Brexit and a new wave of nativism that has swept across Britain, and makes a passionate and vivid argument for migrants as full participants in social and political life.

At a time when racism, xenophobia and nationalism dominate politics in the UK and around the world, Here to Stay avoids the usual racist vox-pops and sensationalist political debate and instead tells the stories of the people whose voices rarely feature in debates about immigration: the migrants themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781913462642
Publisher: Watkins Media
Publication date: 12/14/2021
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 250
File size: 723 KB

About the Author

Yva Alexandrova is a Bulgarian writer and migration expert. She was Head of Policy and Campaigns for the charity Asylum Aid and an organiser for the People’s Assembly campaign group.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Introduction 4

Chapter 1 Growing Up in Bulgaria and How I Came to the UK 10

Chapter 2 Flocks of Eastern Europeans 20

Chapter 3 What's the Big Deal with Migration? 41

Chapter 4 The 2008 Global Financial Crash and Austerity 52

Chapter 5 The Corbyn Moment 69

Chapter 6 The Brexit Referendum Fallout 84

Chapter 7 Corbyn's Freedom of Movement Debacle and the Beginning of the End 90

Chapter 8 Europeans Finding Our Voice - The Campaign for a Second Referendum and the 2019 Elections 102

Chapter 9 Unsettled Status 114

Epilogue 123

Endnotes 125

Acknowledgements 137

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