The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe by Nora Siklodi

Author:Nora Siklodi
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030490515
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

A similar sense of disappointment appeared to take hold of the British stayer group too, once novel processes of differentiation were placed in the realm of the EU’s very own inequalities. British Male (2) touched upon the notion that, coupled with EU mobility, national stereotypes were bound to weaken the position of stayers in a mobile Europe. Perhaps unintentionally—in the light of his expressed sense of embarrassment at the end of his lengthy monologue—he underscored how some of the aforementioned EU-15/CEE divides were accentuated in explicitly nationalist frameworks.

British Male (2), Stayer Group, UK:

I went to Malta.… I got on the plane the same way [as] a couple of months before… [when] I went to Edinburgh and I didn’t really think about it. I thought it was quite novel! I thought it was quite nice, if you contemplate going on a little break in another country. [Some laughs.] How cosmopolitan it made me feel! But then, … if you ask a lot of British people … they would say that [EU mobility] kind of works against us. You’re constantly bombarded with [this] rhetoric, which claims that far too many people are coming into this country and that… [there is a] flow of Eastern European migrants who are coming in and snapping up jobs! And there are people like Nigel Farage who, although they aren’t implicitly saying things that are racist, … [they are] kind of quoting … the fears that a lot of people have about this! [I am] coming from East Anglia where fruit-picking, for instance, is quite a big business during the summer. [Some smiles]. And you end up with a lot of seasonal workers! And I remember, speaking to … a Polish chap I met in the pub and he had a Masters degree and yet he was coming over to do fruit picking because … he wanted to work! He really did! … I thought it was quite admirable. I thought that was quite impressive. I thought he has the initiative to come over here because … he’s following money. Whereas, I don’t think if anyone offered me a job, fruit picking in Poland… I would be particularly happy about it! … But one joke that I heard was that we have a lot in common with the Polish people. We are both from quite heavy drinking cultures [Some laughs], we both have a national love of meat-based dishes and…

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