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In the conclusions to the book, Bridget Byrne and I put in relation the Brexit process with the later developments in migratory flows and migration policies in the UK and EU. We further highlight some necessary lines of future research around Brexit.

In her chapter, @uncomfiest.bsky.social looks back at the Referendum campaigns, and at the use of the 'European family' on the Remain side. She discusses how this concept relates to the wider intersections of migration and family.

Using ethnographic research with Britons in Spain, Jeremy MacClancy explores how the group, mostly studied in literature as lifestyle migrants, reacted politically to Brexit.

In my own chapter in the book I use interviews with British and EU citizens in the UK and Belgium to discuss how they managed the fears deriving from the loss of rights and from the long and uncertain negotiation between the UK and the EU

Using interviews with EU27 candidate to British citizenship, Marianela Barrios Aquino locates Brexit within the wider process of restriction of British citizenship which included the introduction of integration requirements

Starting from ethnographic research in Manchester with Polish migrant women conducted before and after the Brexit Referendum, Alina Rzepnikowska shows how the Brexit process has changed the belonging, citizenship and conviviality of the group.

Looking at withdrawal of citizenship in the UK, @colinyeo.bsky.social discusses how fraud- behavioural- and Imperial (post-colonial) denaturalisations show partly different logics

Going beyond British and EU citizens, Çiğdem Nas and Sanem Baykal look at the impact of Brexit on Turkish citizens.

In her chapter on Empire and Brexit, Devyani Prabhat highlights the continuities between Brexit and other events of disenfranchisement such as East Africa Asians in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the recent Windrush generation scandal

In the Introduction Bridget Byrne and I discuss the groups impacted by Brexit: EU27 citizens in the UK, Britons in the EU, but also Britons in the UK, third-country relatives of mobile EU or British citizens, and third-country nationals in the EU whose path to the UK was closed

Our book Brexit and Citizens' Rights is now out. We discuss Brexit and its impact on the rights of different groups of citizens: British, EU27, third country nationals, in the UK and in the EU.