As a result of the June 2016 referendum, says Guild, in about two years British citizens will cease to be citizens of the European Union--a status founded on the principle of rights--and will retain only their British citizenship--which is founded on allegiance to the sovereign. She investigates what was so terrible--so monstrous--about European Union citizenship rights, that the British had to cast them off like shackles. She looks at monstrous negotiations, monstrous citizenships, citizens and their monstrous families, and monstrous fears. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This book examines the result of the 23 June 2016 UK referendum on leaving the EU where 51.9% of the eligible voters who voted chose to leave. Politicians and media have stressed not only that leave means leave, but also that much of the British voting public was motivated to vote leave by issues of immigration and border control. Guild investigates how the issue of EU citizenship became transformed into a discussion about immigration through four themes: the negotiations between the UK and the EU before the referendum; the nature of and difference between British and EU citizenship; the issue of third country national family members and the fears incited by the referendum in light of the rejection of expertise.
