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In Limbo: Brexit Testimonies from EU Citizens in the UK Paperback – 3 Sept. 2020

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From an idea by Elena Remigi, Collected by Elena Remigi, Véronique Martin and Tim Sykes With forewords by George Szirtes & Ian Dunt Imagine... Imagine you left your native country because you wanted to explore your neighbouring world and embrace the European dream. Imagine you truly believed that the European Union was your home and that, as well as being a citizen of the country you were born in, you were also a citizen of Europe. Imagine you fell deeply in love with your new country. Imagine you built a life there, married, had children, a career, started a business... You felt happy and totally integrated. You were at home. Then one day, your new country decides to vote to leave the European Union, which means that all the rules you have built your life on are going to change. One morning, after years and even decades, you suddenly feel unwelcome, unwanted, betrayed. Your certainties, your life and your security are gone. Your sense of identity too. Through no fault of your own, you are stuck in a painful limbo. This is what has happened since the Brexit Referendum in June 2016 to the EU citizens who have made their life in the UK. This book of testimonies is their voice, their stories from Limbo, haunted by the poignant question: where is home? Collected by Elena Remigi, Véronique Martin and Tim Sykes
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Spokesman Books (3 Sept. 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 332 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0851248896
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0851248899
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.1 x 2.5 x 14.8 cm
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This excellent, nicely laid-out but disturbing book presents the true stories of EU citizens who, since the result of the Brexit Referendum in 2016, have struggled with uncertainty, insecurity and a growing sense of being no longer welcome in their adopted or host country, the once welcoming, open and tolerant United Kingdom. These are people who have built their lives on the premise that they would be able to remain in the UK. They have lived in the country for years, decades and even lifetimes. All have worked (often in the caring professions), paid taxes, raised families, participated in national and community life, volunteered for charities, made friends and, in many cases, married British citizens. Brexit has brought them new and unexpected challenges. A mountain range of bureaucratic hurdles with seemingly ever-changing and often unreasonable demands for proof that they exist, have lived, have worked, have paid their dues for years - evidence required for month by measured month. All of that that simply to remain in a country that they have contributed to - and adopted - voluntarily and entirely legally. For some, it has proved too much and they have left or will do so. Others have struggled on to achieve to the dubious status of "Settled" or "Pre-Settled". A few have successfully obtained naturalization. Throughout all this, those in limbo have faced an officialdom tasked by the UK government with creating a hostile environment, a largely unsupportive if not hostile press and a growing degree of increasingly virulent, openly expressed hatred from elements of their own communities. Families have been torn apart, and individuals driven to the brink of suicide. Elderly EU citizens who arrived decades ago or were even born in the UK, face proving what for some is unprovable, often needing digital skills or equipment that they don't have - and with support hard to find. All this, of course, also imposes financial as well as emotional and psychological burdens on people whose only 'crime' was merely to choose to live in - and love - a country other than their own, a right conferred years ago by the EU and accepted for decades by the UK. As a British old age pensioner of 70, who moved to Germany in September 2016, I cannot help but contrast my treatment here - bearing in mind that I will shortly cease to be an EU citizen - with that meted out to my counterparts, innocent EU citizens in the UK. Nevertheless, I am In Limbo too.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2021
    For all that’s been written about Brexit, there’s been very little focus on the millions of Europeans who call the U.K. home, many for decades. The testimonies in this book show how upsetting and destabilising Brexit has been on a personal level. Beautifully edited, many stories here will give non-Europeans a new appreciation of the difficulties faced by their Eu citizens/British residents neighbours
  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 September 2020
    If you need to understand the pain and destruction that comes from "us and them'ness" you will find it here, in the testimonies of real people, living real lives. I always thought that the phrase "no taxation without representation" meant something. I never imagined that the UK would sink to such depths. Prepare to be shocked. Make sure you have a box of tissues....and that you have time to reflect on the kind of world that you wish to inhabit.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2020
    This excellent, nicely laid-out but disturbing book presents the true stories of EU citizens who, since the result of the Brexit Referendum in 2016, have struggled with uncertainty, insecurity and a growing sense of being no longer welcome in their adopted or host country, the once welcoming, open and tolerant United Kingdom. These are people who have built their lives on the premise that they would be able to remain in the UK. They have lived in the country for years, decades and even lifetimes. All have worked (often in the caring professions), paid taxes, raised families, participated in national and community life, volunteered for charities, made friends and, in many cases, married British citizens. Brexit has brought them new and unexpected challenges. A mountain range of bureaucratic hurdles with seemingly ever-changing and often unreasonable demands for proof that they exist, have lived, have worked, have paid their dues for years - evidence required for month by measured month. All of that that simply to remain in a country that they have contributed to - and adopted - voluntarily and entirely legally. For some, it has proved too much and they have left or will do so. Others have struggled on to achieve to the dubious status of "Settled" or "Pre-Settled". A few have successfully obtained naturalization. Throughout all this, those in limbo have faced an officialdom tasked by the UK government with creating a hostile environment, a largely unsupportive if not hostile press and a growing degree of increasingly virulent, openly expressed hatred from elements of their own communities. Families have been torn apart, and individuals driven to the brink of suicide. Elderly EU citizens who arrived decades ago or were even born in the UK, face proving what for some is unprovable, often needing digital skills or equipment that they don't have - and with support hard to find. All this, of course, also imposes financial as well as emotional and psychological burdens on people whose only 'crime' was merely to choose to live in - and love - a country other than their own, a right conferred years ago by the EU and accepted for decades by the UK. As a British old age pensioner of 70, who moved to Germany in September 2016, I cannot help but contrast my treatment here - bearing in mind that I will shortly cease to be an EU citizen - with that meted out to my counterparts, innocent EU citizens in the UK. Nevertheless, I am In Limbo too.
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    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2020
    This excellent, nicely laid-out but disturbing book presents the true stories of EU citizens who, since the result of the Brexit Referendum in 2016, have struggled with uncertainty, insecurity and a growing sense of being no longer welcome in their adopted or host country, the once welcoming, open and tolerant United Kingdom. These are people who have built their lives on the premise that they would be able to remain in the UK. They have lived in the country for years, decades and even lifetimes. All have worked (often in the caring professions), paid taxes, raised families, participated in national and community life, volunteered for charities, made friends and, in many cases, married British citizens. Brexit has brought them new and unexpected challenges. A mountain range of bureaucratic hurdles with seemingly ever-changing and often unreasonable demands for proof that they exist, have lived, have worked, have paid their dues for years - evidence required for month by measured month. All of that that simply to remain in a country that they have contributed to - and adopted - voluntarily and entirely legally. For some, it has proved too much and they have left or will do so. Others have struggled on to achieve to the dubious status of "Settled" or "Pre-Settled". A few have successfully obtained naturalization. Throughout all this, those in limbo have faced an officialdom tasked by the UK government with creating a hostile environment, a largely unsupportive if not hostile press and a growing degree of increasingly virulent, openly expressed hatred from elements of their own communities. Families have been torn apart, and individuals driven to the brink of suicide. Elderly EU citizens who arrived decades ago or were even born in the UK, face proving what for some is unprovable, often needing digital skills or equipment that they don't have - and with support hard to find. All this, of course, also imposes financial as well as emotional and psychological burdens on people whose only 'crime' was merely to choose to live in - and love - a country other than their own, a right conferred years ago by the EU and accepted for decades by the UK. As a British old age pensioner of 70, who moved to Germany in September 2016, I cannot help but contrast my treatment here - bearing in mind that I will shortly cease to be an EU citizen - with that meted out to my counterparts, innocent EU citizens in the UK. Nevertheless, I am In Limbo too.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2020
    Being myself a U.K. citizen and living already for 46 years on the Continent and being In Limbo too, this new volume speaks 'Volumes' to me!! This edition now includes, EU citizens who have 'had' to 'Apply' for remaining in their HOME not being (as was the promise in the Referendum of 2016) allowed to automatically get the RIGHT to stay. It is a Very unnerving experience to HAVE to apply to stay in a place that you have called HOME (like myself) for 45+ years. You then (hopefully) get Settled Status (or if not able to prove that you have lived there for 5 years continuously) then one gets Pre Settled Status!! But that is not all, one doesn't get any PROOF of this, just a digital on line 'record'. This then leaves it open for all sorts of 'abuse' (whether accidental or not)..
    This New Edition is even more moving than the original being complimented with these additional testimonies. A Human tradgedy (Being a U.K. citizen I am devastated by this turn of events)..
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    A new edition of EU citizens in the U.K. Brexit Testimonies

    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2020
    Being myself a U.K. citizen and living already for 46 years on the Continent and being In Limbo too, this new volume speaks 'Volumes' to me!! This edition now includes, EU citizens who have 'had' to 'Apply' for remaining in their HOME not being (as was the promise in the Referendum of 2016) allowed to automatically get the RIGHT to stay. It is a Very unnerving experience to HAVE to apply to stay in a place that you have called HOME (like myself) for 45+ years. You then (hopefully) get Settled Status (or if not able to prove that you have lived there for 5 years continuously) then one gets Pre Settled Status!! But that is not all, one doesn't get any PROOF of this, just a digital on line 'record'. This then leaves it open for all sorts of 'abuse' (whether accidental or not)..
    This New Edition is even more moving than the original being complimented with these additional testimonies. A Human tradgedy (Being a U.K. citizen I am devastated by this turn of events)..
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2020
    A beautifully executed new edition. This substantial book asks to be picked up, to be browsed and then read from cover to cover. It is well laid out and benefits enormously from Part VI #Unsettled Status. It gives a strong voice to the distressing experiences of EU citizens in U.K. showing how “so-called’ Settled Status all too often leaves them and their families more #Unsettled than ever. A glimmer of hope shines through, however, in newly forged friendships and solidarity found through sharing experiences.
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    A ‘Must Read’ book

    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2020
    A beautifully executed new edition. This substantial book asks to be picked up, to be browsed and then read from cover to cover. It is well laid out and benefits enormously from Part VI #Unsettled Status. It gives a strong voice to the distressing experiences of EU citizens in U.K. showing how “so-called’ Settled Status all too often leaves them and their families more #Unsettled than ever. A glimmer of hope shines through, however, in newly forged friendships and solidarity found through sharing experiences.
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2020
    An excellent book giving a voice to those people who had no say in the referendum but were most effected by it. Whether you voted for or against Brexit or not at all, if you care about people you should read what they say. How their families are torn apart, how they struggle with the Settled Status, how they don't even understand that they have to apply (not register) for it in particular those that had "permanent residence permit" stamped in their passports decades ago. There is also Hope. But read for yourself...
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  • Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2020
    Just like the first edition, this is a "must read": perfect Christmas present for those who voted brexit and have now realized their immutable mistake and for those ignorant who believed all the lies they were told for lack of searching and reading real information: they wanted to stop migrants to come to England... they broke entire European families. I relate to nearly every single testimony in those books. I am now a stranger to the country I called my home... Excellent reading!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars An historical account of an outlawed people
    Reviewed in Germany on 19 December 2021
    In Limbo is the only book out there that gives you valid accounts through personal testimonials, written by EU nationals living in the U.K. and the impact, the vote for Brexit has had in their lives.
    In Limbo gives those a voice who were not even allowed to have a vote in the 2016 referendum, but who were the first whose lives have been strongly affected by the outcome.
    If you’ve never heard about the “application for settlement status” in the U.K., that every EU national who’s lived there before the Brexit date had to go through and if you just assume that life for them continued to be the same as before, then this book is for you.
    So many lives, so very affected people. When will their faith be acknowledged?