The unexpected place: Brexit referendum and the disruptions to translocal place-making among Finns in the UK

IF 1.3 Q2 GEOGRAPHY Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2020-08-30 DOI:10.11143/fennia.89199
Evi-Carita Riikonen
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As EU citizens and a ‘middling’ migrant group in the UK, Finns have been able to exercise a relatively limitless existence in Britain. However, this freedom became threatened after the Brexit referendum. Through a digital ethnographic approach, this paper shows that the result of the Brexit referendum turned Finns’ translocal place-making in the UK from being practiced by social bodies to being negotiated by political bodies and contributes to literature about translocal place-making as receptive to disruptions. The referendum disrupted Finns’ translocal place-making processes on personal and societal levels, cutting through both active, embodied processes in the UK and virtual, imagined processes in Finland. The referendum imposed newly experienced otherness and conditionality to the ability to participate in the British society. It did, however, also create translocal attachments towards both the UK and Finland. Through its disruptive nature, the event of the Brexit vote embedded itself in the future place-making orientations and narratives of the Finns in the UK, potentially having an impact on their future translocal trajectories and imaginaries.
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意想不到的地方:英国脱欧公投,以及芬兰人在英国跨地区选址的中断
作为欧盟公民和英国的“中等”移民群体,芬兰人能够在英国相对不受限制地生活。然而,在英国脱欧公投后,这种自由受到了威胁。通过数字民族志方法,本文表明,英国脱欧公投的结果使芬兰人在英国的跨地方地方制造从由社会团体实践转变为由政治团体谈判,并为跨地方地方制造接受破坏的文献做出了贡献。公投扰乱了芬兰人在个人和社会层面上的跨地方的地方制定过程,既切断了英国的积极的、具体化的过程,也切断了芬兰的虚拟的、想象的过程。全民公决给参与英国社会的能力施加了新经历的差异性和条件性。然而,它也确实造成了对英国和芬兰的跨地区依恋。通过其破坏性的性质,英国脱欧公投事件嵌入了芬兰人在英国未来的地方制造方向和叙事,可能对他们未来的跨地方轨迹和想象产生影响。
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