ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes an ethnographic investigation into the political agency of British migrants in Alicante, Spain, and South West France. It returns to the main themes of political subjectivity, citizenship, belonging, residency, and morality. Contemporary practice theory and Isin’s approach to ‘enacting’ citizenship are revisited, highlighting key critiques of Isin. The chapter concludes that political agency among migrants is not confined to the underprivileged or multiply disadvantaged. Even incomers who are comfortably off have their own political subjectivities and will enter the political fray if they feel their fundamental values challenged or key interests threatened. The British councillors stood to fight gross moral inequity. The anti-Brexit campaigners organised to combat what they saw as the stupidity of the Brexit referendum result. Some British citizens learnt both to navigate and to contest the policy and practice of national bureaucracies concerning residency and status.
