Millions of Europeans in Britain fear they will lose basic rights over the next two years. Used to thinking of themselves as citizens with some say over their future, many now feel scared and uncertain, their lives more precarious.
For these Europeans, home is here. They have decided to live and work and study here, and indeed they did so at a time when they weren’t really regarded as migrants, but citizens in the same political union as ourselves. Yet after a single, close vote in which they weren’t able to participate, their status has changed. The majority voted, or so we’ve been told, to disenfranchise the minority.
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