Post-Brexit and Covid-19 Period Goan Migration Scenario to the United Kingdom: A Compendium of Literature

Abstract

Of late nationalism features very prominently in a number of countries across Europe’s political spectrum. In fact, Brexit became possible because of nationalists who resented globalization. The objective of the paper is to call attention to the impacts of the new migration policy adopted by the United Kingdom on India with special reference to Goa. The study has adopted a rigorous analysis of the secondary literature available on Brexit, which was a decisive shift into the unknown withconfusion and uncertainty prevailing concerning its latent functions, and future relations of UK with the EU and the rest of the world. This study has found that UK’s exclusionary immigration policy has led to a decrease in migration of the EU citizens to UK, depriving the disadvantaged, the disabled, aged and people with chronic illnesses of the much needed social and health care during the Covid-19 pandemic. Specifically, this study revealed that the potential Goan migrants, in the process of procuring the Portuguese passport to migrate to UK for better economic opportunities, have been adversely affected, having lost not only lakhs of rupees already spent to obtain the Portuguese passport but alsothe glimmer of hope for a brighter future