For Zoe Adams Green ‘The EU was my oyster’. Joining Michaela down the line from Italy, she describes her love affair with Europe, and her experiences moving around the EU seeking work and latterly starting a family, opportunities that will be o

Living in Spain … nearly 40 years on

Aug 14th, 2020 24m 29s

British migration to the Spanish coastline is only part of the story about British emigration to Spain. In this episode Michaela is joined down the line by Michael Harris, British in Europe steering committee member, founder of Eurocitizens, wh

Social mobility, Free Movement and the impermanence of citizenship rights

Jul 31st, 2020 29m 45s

A lesser known story of British migration to the EU is how it interplays with social mobility. In this episode, Michaela is joined by Fiona Godfrey, co-chair of British in Europe, a resident of Luxembourg to bust the myth that British citizens

Brexit and the British in Poland

Jul 3rd, 2020 21m 59s

We’re travelling to Poland today, as Michaela talks with Steve Davies, who is studying for his PhD in Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Brexit, Steve introduces us to a lesser known story of intra-

Brexit in the real lives of British citizens living in the EU27: Lisa in France

Jun 19th, 2020 23m 26s

Recorded earlier this year, in the episode Michaela talks with Lisa in France. In her thirties and married to a French man, she talks about what the EU has meant for her and her life. Moving within Europe as a student and in the first stages of

Advocating for British in Europe, from Referendum to COVID-19

Jun 5th, 2020 26m 50s

In the wake of the Brexit referendum, British citizens living across Europe started to come together in an unprecedented way, concerned about what Brexit might mean for their future legal status. In this episode, Michaela is joined by Jane Gold

Brexit and the British in France, three years on

Mar 6th, 2020 31m 15s

It’s the second of this week’s double-bill to mark the release of our latest reports! Michaela and Karen discuss the report drawing across three years of researching Brexit in the lives of Britons living in France. They talk about making sense

Brexit and the British in Spain, three years on

Mar 6th, 2020 27m 19s

This week we’re bringing you a double-bill to mark the release of our latest reports. In this first episode, Michaela is joined by Karen to talk about her report drawing across three years of researching Brexit in the lives of Britons living in

The British in Berlin, from the Berlin Wall to gentrification and the creative classes

Feb 28th, 2020 28m 21s

Recorded in Berlin in November 2019, in this episode Michaela is joined by Christy Kulz, Technical University Berlin and Christine Barwick, Centre Marc Bloch, to talk about the migration of British citizens to Berlin. We disturb some of the red

From the ‘Brexit Irish’ to the English in Ireland

Feb 7th, 2020 25m 12s

Sticking with the theme of Brexit and Ireland, Michaela is joined by Vikki Barry Brown, a PhD candidate from Queen Mary, University of London, to talk about Irish passports, English and Irish identities, and Brexit. They discuss the rise in app

The Irish border and bordering practices before and after Brexit

Jan 24th, 2020 32m 32s

Since the recording of this podcast, the election returned a majority Conservative government in Westminster which has since passed the Withdrawal Agreement for leaving the EU. A transition period, lasting at least until the end of 2020, should

A Brexit Brits Abroad Retrospective

Jan 10th, 2020 31m 48s

Our first episode of 2020, and it’s a throwback to a live recording of presentation that Michaela and Karen gave to colleagues at a conference in Umeå, Sweden. They offer some reflections on the practice of doing research with British citizens

From market-based to fundamental rights in understandings of EU citizenship

Dec 20th, 2019 28m 16s

This episode sees Michaela joined by Adrienne Yong, lecturer at City Law School (https://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/adrienne-yong), to talk legal perspectives on Brexit and citizens’ rights. Adrienne offers her analysis of what case law re

Brexit in the real lives of British citizens living in the EU27: Debbie Williams, founder of BrExpats hear our voice

Dec 13th, 2019 25m 53s

In the latest of our episodes focussed on Brexit in the real lives of British citizens living in the EU27, Michaela is joined over the Internet by Debbie Williams, founder of BrExpats Hear our Voice (https://brexpatshov.com). She explains how s

Brexit inequalities, unequal Europes and unequal Europeans

Dec 6th, 2019 29m 37s

In this episode, Michaela is joined by Lorenza Antonucci (University of Birmingham) and Simone Varriale (University of Lincoln). They discuss the conclusions of their recent paper Unequal Europe, Unequal Brexit ( https://research.birmingham.ac

Brexit in the real lives of British citizens living in the EU27: Molly and Naomi, young and highly mobile Europeans

Nov 29th, 2019 24m 56s

What does Brexit mean for young British citizens living in the EU who have never known anything other than being European? In this episode, Michaela is joined over the Internet by Molly (in Spain) and Naomi (in Germany), campaigners for Young E

Brexit in the real lives of Britons living in the EU27: Bel on racism in the Netherlands and the absence of migrant solidarity in narratives about citizens’ rights

Nov 15th, 2019 30m 33s

This episode sees Michaela and Chantelle return to understanding the racialised exclusions at the heart of Britishness and other European national identities. They talk with Bel Parnell-Berry (https://project-parnell.com) who lives in the Neth

The Netherlands and their British residents in a time of Brexit

Nov 1st, 2019 23m 52s

Michaela is joined by Annette Schrauwen, Professor of European Integration at the University of Amsterdam (https://www.uva.nl/profiel/s/c/a.a.m.schrauwen/a.a.m.schrauwen.html?1572365609704), the co-author of the 2017 report commissioned by the

Brexit in the real lives of Britons living in the EU27: Ian working across borders

Oct 18th, 2019 22m 7s

Ian lives in Sweden and crosses the Öresund Bridge on a daily basis for his job in Denmark. As a cross-border worker what does Brexit mean for him and others like him, now and in the future? And what does it mean for the cross border rights—pen

SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: Brexit, bordering and the British in Europe

Oct 10th, 2019 46m 38s

In today’s podcast special, Michaela and Karen get together to reflect on (some of) the sociological takeaways from the project. And it’s a really tour de force! Get ready to hear them tackle the problems at the heart of the perennial questi

The political mobilisation of Britons in Spain before and after Brexit

Oct 4th, 2019 27m 31s

One of the notable consequences of Brexit has been the rapid rise of transnational campaign groups lobbying for the rights of British citizens living in the EU26. Such political mobilisation of the British population across Europe is unpreceden

Brexit and the future of the Common Travel Area

Sep 20th, 2019 38m 29s

In this episode Michaela talks over the line with Aoife O’Donoghue, Professor of International Law and Global Governance, Durham University (https://www.dur.ac.uk/law/staff/display/?id=5868) and Colin Murray, Reader in Public Law at Newcastle

About the British in Berlin and Brexit

Sep 6th, 2019 29m 28s

In this episode, Michaela is joined on the line by Christine Barwick (Centre Marc Bloch, Humboldt University) to talk about her and her students’ recent research with British citizens living in Berlin. They focus in particular on how working wi

What does it mean to be European in a changing Europe?

Aug 23rd, 2019 25m 8s

Returning to a familiar theme of European and Europeanness, Michaela talks with guest Hannah White. Over the past two years, Hannah has been cycling around Europe on her bike, talking with ordinary Europeans about what being European means to t

Brexit and No Deal from the end of the British retirement dream to the Spanish citizens in London

Aug 9th, 2019 29m 25s

In this episode Michaela is joined by Helen McCarthy, a researcher at MPI Europe and PhD candidate at Middlesex University. Recorded in the week that Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, they revisit Helen’s work about how Spanish officials wer