Having, making and feeling home as a European immigrant in the United Kingdom post-Brexit referendum: An interpretative phenomenological study
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Foxwell, K., Strohmaier, S., Jones, F. and Nigbur, D. 2024. Having, making and feeling home as a European immigrant in the United Kingdom post-Brexit referendum: An interpretative phenomenological study. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12798
Authors | Foxwell, K., Strohmaier, S., Jones, F. and Nigbur, D. |
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Abstract | Migrants' subjective sense of home deserves further research attention. In the particular context of the United Kingdom's (UK's) decision to leave the European Union (‘Brexit’), we interviewed 10 European citizens living in the UK about their sense of home, using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). In our analysis, we identified themes of (1) having more than one home, (2) making and finding a new home, (3) being permanently different from the non-migrant population and (4) a concern about feeling safe and welcome. Migration and sense of home involved building and rebuilding personal and social identity. Making a new home was effortful, and neither the old home nor the difference from the native population ever disappeared psychologically. This adds an experiential aspect to the idea of ‘integration’ in acculturation. Different notions of home were linked to different experiences of the impact of the Brexit referendum. We discuss the connections between acculturation, sense of home and lived experience and propose lived identity as a fruitful subject matter for social psychology. |
Keywords | Acculturation; Identity; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Meaning of home; Migration |
Year | 2024 |
Journal | British Journal of Social Psychology |
Publisher | Wiley |
ISSN | 0144-6665 |
2044-8309 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12798 |
Official URL | https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso.12798 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 06 Sep 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 16 Aug 2024 |
Deposited | 12 Sep 2024 |
Accepted author manuscript | License All rights reserved File Access Level Restricted |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/98z8v/having-making-and-feeling-home-as-a-european-immigrant-in-the-united-kingdom-post-brexit-referendum-an-interpretative-phenomenological-study
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