Immobility and the Brexit vote

Publication type

Journal Article

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Publication date

June 1, 2018

Summary:

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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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 11 , p.143 -163

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsx027

ISSN

17521378

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