What is the EUROCHILDREN project?

My project looks at the impact of Brexit on European families. We look at how parents and children understand Brexit, what they do as a consequence, and how they think about the future. Some of them decide to go away to move back home. The problem is that for some of them, home is actually here. If you think that a lot of the children actually born in United Kingdom. So returning home means simply to stay here.

Why is your work important?

I feel my work is important because understanding the impact of Brexit on European family Britons also means understand the impact of Brexit on British society more broadly. After 40 years of membership of the European Union, there are hundreds of thousands of families that are mixed with British and European national, with children born from these couples that have grown up in this country. So after Brexit, all of them have to ask themselves, what next? What about our future? So this is why research is important and needs to be done.

What does home mean to the people in your project?

For all the people I work with, every migrant, every refugee has as a home in their mind. For some people, this home is not too far away. They can go there, they can visit, people can come to visit them. For others, home becomes a place where they are going to long for it, for all their life because of war, persecution, and because they are not allowed to travel. So something that we always talk about in interviews with people, they always mention it and you really need to unpack it. You really to understand to them, what does it mean? I'll do it. Some people will attach it to their families scattered around the world. So it's not a place is a friend, a brother, a sister and move with them. For the people, is that an attachment to a specific place, a square, a landscape, a view of the sea, a vista, etc. There’s always something that people see as important in their life is a very good way of starting a conversation, asking about home.