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The issue of migration bridges the divide between short-term and long-term explanations of Brexit.Short-term explanations stress the drift toward a referendum in British politics, the opportunistic miscalculation by a playboy prime minister, and the manipulation of the referendum vote by a grotesquely biased press and some of the same conspiratorial forces which secured Trump’s election. Longer-term explanations point to historical differences between the UK and (the rest of) Europe; the fact that the UK escaped defeat and occupation in World War Two; the distinctive legal system shared by England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (though not Scotland); and the UK’s majoritarian political culture. This chapter discusses in a comparative context. the contribution of a migration crisis to the UK’s EU membership and constitutional crisis.
Author(s): Outhwaite W
Editor(s): Cecilia Menjívar, Marie Ruiz, and Immanuel Ness
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises
Year: 2019
Pages: 1-19
Print publication date: 01/02/2019
Online publication date: 11/09/2018
Acceptance date: 01/01/2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place Published: New York
URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.013.7
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.013.7
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9780190856908