TY - JOUR
TI - Ambiguous impact of Brexit on young Poles living in the United Kingdom
AU - Trąbka, Agnieszka
AU - Wermińska-Wiśnicka, Iga
TI - Ambiguous impact of Brexit on young Poles living in the United Kingdom
AB - 
	The paper aims to analyse the impact of Brexit on the social anchoring of young Poles in the United Kingdom in four spheres of their lives: decision and return plans; application for British citizenship; buying properties; well-being and life satisfaction. The article is based on research conducted within the project „CEEYouth: The comparative study of young migrants from Poland and Lithuania in the context of Brexit”. We also handle statistics data from the Office for National Statistics as well as qualitative data from three waves of Qualitative Longitudinal Research of 41 young (aged 19–34) Polish post-accession migrants in the UK. We find that it is hard to unambiguously assess the impact of Brexit on the mentioned spheres of young Poles’ lives. Firstly, it is caused by the fact that different sources of data show results which are contrasting and secondly, the reactions of people are dynamically changing within the lapse of time. Therefore, it could be surely said that Brexit has impacted the lives of young Polish migrants, but it has caused neither mass return, nor the general willingness to naturalise. Although the results of the Brexit referendum have caused disturbance amid many Poles, it has not impacted their life decisions or, according to statistics, their well-being.
VL - 2020 (XLVI)
IS - Vol. 4 (178)
PY - 2020
SN - 2081-4488
C1 - 2544-4972
SP - 49
EP - 70
DO - 10.4467/25444972SMPP.20.038.12775
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/smpp/article/niejednoznaczny-wplyw-brexitu-na-zycie-mlodych-polakow-w-wielkiej-brytanii
KW - Brexit
KW - post-accession migration
KW - Poles in the United Kingdom
KW - social anchoring
KW - well-being