The impact of Brexit on constructing the youth identity in the UK

Abstract

Facing the events of Brexit a large number of economic, political, social and cultural changes are taking place in the modern United Kingdom and the European Union. The given thesis presupposes and is aimed on discovering possible alterations in the national identity of the youth among the other changes in the aftermath of Brexit. The work is divided into three substantive sections that give overview of existing theoretical framework on the notions of national identity, outlines the methodology of qualitative focus groups conducted in three types of groups (students, working youth and working students), and analyses possible influence of Brexit on the self-identity change accordingly. As a result of the work, the events of Brexit were found out to appear one of the possible reasons of impact on the youth national identity while another aspects influencing the national identity were also uncovered.