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fc501@cam.ac.uk
Research Associate

Interests

I am interested in the free movement of persons, the legacy of EU free movement to the UK post-Brexit, the future of UK Immigration law & policy and access to justice pathways available to migrant communities (broadly defined) living in the UK & EU.  

CV / Biography

Fiona works on the EU Migrant Worker Project examining immigration matters in the UK post Brexit (particularly for EU citizens in the UK) and access to justice pathways for marginalized communities. Her work is part of a programme called ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’ (http://ukandeu.ac.uk), which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Alongside her academic work, Fiona also works for a charity in Norfolk called GYROS (www.gyros.org.uk) supporting refugee, asylum seekers and other migrant communities. 

Fiona is a Fellow and Tutor at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. 

Fiona has written extensively on the topic of EU citizens in the UK and Brexit. Her work has been featured in The IndependentThe TimesThe Conversation and BBC News among others. She has given evidence to both the House of Lords, EU Affairs Committee and to Parliamentary Staff in the House of Commons on the topic of (EU) citizen’s rights. Her work has been cited in reports by both the UK House of Lords and the Welsh Parliament.  She also blogs on Brexit, mainly for the http://ukandeu.ac.uk/.

Fiona is also an Associate Lecturer at ARU (Cambridge), teaching EU Law, English Legal Systems and (LLM) Research Methods in Law.

Fields of research

EU Law, UK Immigration Law, Constitutional Law, English Legal Systems, Legal Research Methods 

 

Publications

 

Books

Low Paid EU migrant Workers: The House, The Street, the Town. (with C. Barnard and S. Fraser Butlin) (BUP), forthcoming

Co-Author/s:
C. Barnard and S. Fraser Butlin
Published Forthcoming

Articles

"The darker side of the internal market ideal: EU free movement and migrant workers living in a coastal town " Paper 32/2023

Co-Author/s:
C. Barnard
Citation:
Paper 32/2023
Published: Nov 2023

"(Facilitated) Conversations from the frontline: qualitative multilingual research with EU Migrant Workers" Paper No 19/2023

Co-Author/s:
C. Barnard
Citation:
Paper No 19/2023
Published: Jun 2023

"When (EU) migration came to Great Yarmouth" (2023) Contemporary Social Science 150

Co-Author/s:
C. Barnard
Citation:
(2023) Contemporary Social Science 150
DOI:
DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2023.2188486
Published: Mar 2023

"(Legal) assistance in employment matters to low-paid EU migrant workers in the East of England" (2022) Legal Studies 491

Co-Author/s:
C. Barnard and S. Fraser Butlin
Citation:
(2022) Legal Studies 491
DOI:
doi:10.1017/lst.2021.58
Published: Feb 2022

"The changing status of European Union nationals in the United Kingdom following Brexit: The lived experience of the European Union Settlement Scheme" (2022) Social & Legal Studies 365

Co-Author/s:
C. Barnard and S. Fraser Butlin
Citation:
(2022) Social & Legal Studies 365
DOI:
doi:10.1177/09646639211032337
Published: Aug 2021

Book Chapters

"The Darker Side of the Internal Market Ideal: EU Migrant Workers Living in a Coastal Town" (with Catherine Barnard ) in Jermias Adams-Prassl, Sanja B O Gojevic, Ariel Ezrachi and Dortota Leczywicz (ed(s)), Internal Market Ideal, Essays in honour of Stephen Weatherill , 2024)