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Life in Suspension 'T hat morning when I woke up and turned on the television it felt like the end of the world. My stomach dropped to my toes, I forgot to breathe and was left gasping. It was unforeseen, like living an alternate reality where the world was out to get you, personally.' Th e morning in question was Friday 24 June 2016 and the British public had just voted by 51.89 per cent to 48.11 per cent to leave the European Union (EU). Alexia was left glaring at the television set, not so much listening to the reporter refl ect on how the country would digest the enormity of the situation, what the audience was told would be a 'once-in-a-lifetime event', but rather transfi xed on a void enveloping her world. In haste, she started to search online for information on how to secure her status in the United Kingdom. 'I had felt sure that Remain would win' she says, still with a wisp of disbelief nearly four years on. 'All the analysis and media coverage leading up to the vote led me to believe that there was no danger [that the Leave vote would prevail].' In her own words, Alexia 'fl ed' Greece in 2014 to 'escape the crisis'. She was a university student living in the United Kingdo

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published

2022

Language

EN