- An interview with an EU citizen living in the UK
When I started this campaign I wasn’t sure how widespread these feelings of rejection were. But during my research I’ve spoken to many EU citizens living in the UK. Some don’t feel any different after the vote, whilst others have shocked me further with their feelings about the result and how it has caused some people it hide their nationalities to avoid awkward interactions, or worse, out of fear or shame.
One such person I spoke to was Jenni, a work colleague who moved to Colchester just a week before the vote. Here’s her take on Brexit:
How did you feel when you woke up on the 24th and found out that Britain had voted to leave?
The night of the referendum I didn’t sleep, neither did my husband. We were checking the result every hour and once we heard the news we were very upset. Both my husband and I are very upset with the current state of the world. We have been reading The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, which talks about how Europe fell into populisms and extremisms at the beginning of the 20th century, leading the two world wars and it has made us very sensitive – it’s happening again, Europe is destroying itself again.
