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Title: Against the Tide: Transnational Solidarity in Brexit Britain
Author(s): Baglioni, Simone
Biosca, Olga
Montgomery, Tom
Contact Email: tom.montgomery@stir.ac.uk
Editor(s): Lahusen, Christian
Zschache, Ulrike
Kousis, Maria
Sponsor: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
Citation: Baglioni S, Biosca O & Montgomery T (2020) Against the Tide: Transnational Solidarity in Brexit Britain. In: Lahusen C, Zschache U & Kousis M (eds.) <i>Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises: Citizen Organisations and Collective Learning in Europe</i>. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 181-207. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49659-3_7
Keywords: Solidarity
transnational
citizen organisations
civil society
Issue Date: 2020
Date Deposited: 6-Sep-2023
Series/Report no.: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Abstract: This chapter discusses UK-based civil society organisations supporting vulnerable groups (migrants, refugees and asylum seekers; disabled people; and the unemployed) which have been on the front line of a decade of austerity and funding cuts. It does so by exploring the relationship between these organisations and policymakers; the impact of austerity on the organisations themselves; the mission and activities of these organisations and the cooperation between organisations at different scales (transnational, national and local). Our findings reveal a tale of ‘two Britains’: one of top-down policies and discourses which are anti-solidarity and re-activate decades-old discourses of dependency and deservingness; and another Britain of grassroots solidarity, (self-)organised from the bottom up, often in partnership with austerity-hit local government.
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DOI Link: 10.1007/978-3-030-49659-3_7
Licence URL(s): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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