Goodwin, Matthew J., Milazzo, Caitlin (2017) Taking back control? Investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19 (3). pp. 450-464. ISSN 1369-1481. (doi:10.1177/1369148117710799) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:62168)
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Abstract
The 2016 referendum marked a watershed moment in the history of the United Kingdom. The public vote to leave the European Union (EU)—for a ‘Brexit’—brought an end to the country’s membership of the EU and set it on a fundamentally different course. Recent academic research on the vote for Brexit points to the importance of immigration as a key driver, although how immigration influenced the vote remains unclear. In this article, we draw on aggregate-level data and individual-level survey data from the British Election Study (BES) to explore how immigration shaped public support for Brexit. Our findings suggest that, specifically, increases in the rate of immigration at the local level and sentiments regarding control over immigration were key predictors of the vote for Brexit, even after accounting for factors stressed by established theories of Eurosceptic voting. Our findings suggest that a large reservoir of support for leaving the EU, and perhaps anti-immigration populism more widely, will remain in Britain, so long as immigration remains a salient issue.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1177/1369148117710799 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Brexit, European Union, Euroscepticism, immigration, referendum, voting |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations |
Depositing User: | Matthew Goodwin |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2017 14:12 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:56 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/62168 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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