Reflections on Brexit

Ahmad, Khairil Izamin (2016) Reflections on Brexit. Current Affairs Forum, KIRKHS, International Islamic University Malaysia.

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Abstract

I begin with my personal stake on the issue. In a way, without wishing to be overly sentimental, the European Union (EU) has had a hand in the creation of my family. I met my wife, a Swedish citizen, in Britain while studying for a Master’s and later a PhD degree. She, along with many friends who I met there, are part of a generation of Europeans who have benefited from the ease in cross border mobility that came with the EU. Far from diminishing the national identities of its citizens, the EU has managed to allow national belongings to be expressed through its presence. My wife, for one, is a proud Swede who also identifies as a European citizen. In Britain, through a congregation of people from all over the EU and beyond, my horizons were broadened, my cultural outlook was enriched, and my lifelong resolve to defend and celebrate diversity, pluralism and difference was strengthened. Like me and my wife, many of our friends have gone on to establish cross border families, embracing all the challenges that come with it, challenges that the EU has helped to greatly mitigate. ....

Item Type:	Article (Electronic Media)
Additional Information:	5295/54035
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Reflections, Brexit
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Political Science
Depositing User:	Dr Khairil I B Ahmad
Date Deposited:	17 Jan 2017 09:19
Last Modified:	15 Mar 2017 18:27
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/54035

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