People

Jeremy MacClancy
Professor of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University

  

Jeremy has done fieldwork in rural Europe since the 1980s, first in Navarre, northern Spain, then in the West of Ireland, and now in Alicante province, southwest Spain. He has studied a rich variety of aspects of social life: ethnic nationalism, regionalism, social movements, sport, art, cuisine, museums, neo-rurals, fiestas, pilgrimages, etc. Since 2015 he has doing fieldwork on British residents in Alicante who have become local town-councillors,working jointly with Fiona who started doing similar work in rural France. Once the results of the Brexit referendum were announced, they began work on its consequences for British residents in the two areas, and how they are reacting to and attempting to influence all the perceived changes.

Jeremy is also in charge of the UK dimension of an Italian, German and British joint project investigating best practice in the treatment of LGBT+ migrants and refugees into the EU. At the same time, he is the Chairperson of Chacolinks, an indigenous rights charitable organisation which accompanies the Wichi of northern Argentina, in their continuing struggle to regain control of their ancestral lands. See chacolinks.org.uk




Dr Fiona Ferbrache
Human Geographer, University of Oxford 

 

With research expertise in intra-EU migration and citizenship, Fiona has researched and published on the lives and experiences of Britons living in France. She has interviewed many Britons since 2008 and lived alongside them in order to better understand what matters to them. In doing so, Fiona speaks to academic debates concerning migration, free movement, EU integration and citizenship. In 2016, Fiona embarked on a project with Jeremy to examine the experiences of Britons participating in local level politics in both France and Spain. After 23 June, the research took a new turn towards the lives and experiences of Britons in France in the wake of the UK/EU referendum and Brexit.

Alongside this research, Fiona is a Senior College Lecturer in Human Geography at Keble College and Brasenose College Oxford, and has further researcher experience on urban public transport.