Date: 2018
Type: Article
Immobility and the Brexit vote
Cambridge journal of regions economy and society, 2018, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 143-163
LEE, Neil, MORRIS, Katy, KEMENY, Thomas, Immobility and the Brexit vote, Cambridge journal of regions economy and society, 2018, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 143-163
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Popular explanations of the Brexit vote have centred on the division between cosmopolitan internationalists who voted Remain and geographically rooted individuals who voted Leave. In this article, we conduct the first empirical test of whether residential immobility-the concept underpinning this distinction-was an important variable in the Brexit vote. We find that locally rooted individuals-defined as those living in their county of birth-were 7% more likely to support Leave. However, the impact of immobility was filtered by local circumstances: immobility only mattered for respondents in areas experiencing relative economic decline or increases in migrant populations.
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Published: 04 January 2018
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59998
Full-text via DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsx027
ISSN: 1752-1378; 1752-1386
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keyword(s): Brexit Globalisation Mobility Populism Performance Europe Crisis
Earlier different version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/59998
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