Seminar "Return migration dynamics between Spain and the United Kingdom", by Jordi Giner and Erika Masanet
On Friday, 28 November at 12 noon, the seminar ‘The return migration of Spaniards from the United Kingdom’ will be held by Jordi Giner and Erika Masanet, members of the MIDICO group. The seminar will feature two presentations. First, Erika Masanet will give a presentation entitled ‘Returning from the United Kingdom in the context of Brexit and the pandemic: motivations and new mobilities of returning Spaniards,’ in which she will address the return migration of Spaniards from the United Kingdom in the context of Brexit and the pandemic, specifically analysing the motivations for returning and the expectations of new mobilities for returnees (re-emigrating to another country, returning to the United Kingdom). Taking a qualitative approach, the research is based on the analysis of interviews conducted with Spaniards who emigrated to the United Kingdom from 2008 onwards and who subsequently returned to Spain. This empirical material is part of the Y+D+y project ‘Integration and return of the “new Spanish emigration”: a comparative analysis of Spanish communities in the United Kingdom and France’ (PID2019-105041RA-I00), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
For his part, Jordi Giner will present the paper ‘Returning to the United Kingdom after retirement migration: state of the art’. After two events of the magnitude of COVID-19 and the entry into force of Brexit, with the implementation of measures associated with both, for a part of the British immigrant population in Spain, the question of whether to stay or return to their country of origin has become relevant. This seminar will address the reality of a very large national group based on the trends observed in the data from the Annual Population Census and the Statistics on Migration and Changes of Residence. It will also focus on the discourse of the British community that has returned to the United Kingdom, based on a series of semi-structured interviews, focusing on their migration stories and the reasons behind them.
The seminar will take place at the 3A3 clasroom, Faculty of Social Sciences and can be followed online via zoom https://uv-es.zoom.us/j/94011460077?pwd=GJRlioaShqVa5mBYJNRnPoblAmAFMK.1
