This paper investigates the relationship between rural space and Brexit. It uses the 2016 UK Referendum outcome and the ongoing processes of Brexit as an optic though which to explore the changing configurations of rural communities and the ways in which they both reinforce and problematise the politics and geographies of Brexit. Taking as its starting point the ‘take our country back’ nationalism of the 2016 Referendum the paper considers how the anti-migrant, defensive Brexit positions folded into dominant rural imaginaries. Arguing that these imaginaries have always been fractured, the paper shows how this has intensified through the ruralisation of migration in the 2000s. In this context Brexit can be understood as rupture more than a confirmation of nationalist or exclusionary rural imaginaries and the complex Leave/Remain geography is indicative of this. Drawing on a small set of in-depth interviews with expert ‘policy actors’ from rural community and migrant organisations in rural regions in of Wales, England, and Scotland the paper reflects on the rural-Brexit relationship by exploring rural diversity, perceptions of the impacts of Brexit on rural places and rural-migrant dependencies that are social as well as economic. It identifies the interconnected precarity of rural communities' well-being as the decisions of (and constraints on) rural migrants in the post Brexit, re-bordered UK disrupt and affect rural livability. In doing so, it emphasises the ambivalence in the everyday ‘rural Brexit’ and calls for closer attention to the ways in which rural communities are constitutive of and respond to political turbulence.

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农村脱欧？农村社区、移民和依赖性的矛盾政治

本文研究了农村空间与英国脱欧之间的关系。它以 2016 年英国公投结果和正在进行的脱欧进程为视角，探讨农村社区结构的变化，以及它们如何强化脱欧的政治和地理，并提出问题。本文以 2016 年公投中“夺回我们的国家”的民族主义为出发点，探讨了反移民、防御性脱欧立场如何融入占主导地位的农村想象。该论文认为，这些想象一直都是支离破碎的，并展示了这种情况如何通过 2000 年代的移民农村化而加剧。在这种背景下，英国脱欧可以被理解为破裂，而不是对民族主义或排他性农村想象的确认，复杂的脱欧/留欧地理格局就表明了这一点。本文利用对来自威尔士、英格兰和苏格兰农村地区农村社区和移民组织的专家“政策行为者”的少量深入访谈，通过探讨农村多样性、对农村地区的看法，反思了农村与英国脱欧的关系。英国脱欧对农村地区以及农村移民的社会和经济依赖性的影响。它将农村社区福祉的相互关联的不稳定因素确定为脱欧后农村移民的决定（和限制），重新与英国接壤，扰乱并影响了农村宜居性。在此过程中，它强调了日常“农村脱欧”中的矛盾心理，并呼吁更加密切地关注农村社区构成和应对政治动荡的方式。