Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
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.
Published in
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
Subjects
Notes
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