With this article we present European Union (EU) and non-EU nurses’ lived experiences of feeling ‘unwelcomed’ and ‘unsettled’ in a heightened xenophobic environment, in the workplace and elsewhere, following the 2016 EU Referendum. Brexit has exposed long-standing structural inequalities which oppress and disempower the NHS migrant labour force. Migrant nurses, a highly mobile and skilled workforce, were feeling increasingly disenfranchised and insecure in their employment. Drawing on notions such as tolerated citizenship and the contested political boundaries of belonging, and taking a situated intersectionality approach, we examine everyday bordering practices in the UK where the cultivation of a hostile environment is becoming increasingly prevalent. We contribute to the debates on forms of othering in post-Brexit Britain and question the instrumentality of policy interventions, closely connected to the ‘dangerous politics of immigration control’, which have far-reaching implications for long-term settlement of migrant nurses and other healthcare migrant workers.

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移民 NHS 护士在英国脱欧后成为“被容忍的”公民

在这篇文章中，我们介绍了在 2016 年欧盟公投之后，在工作场所和其他地方的仇外心理加剧的环境中，欧盟 (EU) 和非欧盟护士的生活经历。英国脱欧暴露了长期存在的结构性不平等现象，这些不平等现象压迫和削弱了 NHS 移民劳动力。流动护士是一支流动性强、技能娴熟的劳动力队伍，他们在工作中感到越来越被剥夺权利和不安全感。利用诸如被容忍的公民身份和有争议的政治归属边界等概念，并采取一种定位的交叉性方法，我们研究了英国的日常边界实践，在这种情况下，敌对环境的培养变得越来越普遍。