18 Facts About Tanja Bueltmann

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Tanja Bueltmann, was born on 1979 and is a German-British historian and academic, who holds the chair in International History at the University of Strathclyde.

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Tanja Bueltmann is a citizens' rights campaigner and founder of the EU Citizens' Champion campaign.

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Tanja Bueltmann was a PhD candidate with the Irish-Scottish studies programme at the Victoria University of Wellington, with her PhD research funded by the New Zealand government's New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarship scheme.

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Tanja Bueltmann continued to research the movement of Scots overseas, and, in 2015, co-edited The Scottish Diaspora together with Professor Graeme Morton and Dr Andrew Hinson.

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In 2017, Tanja Bueltmann published the co-authored monograph The English Diaspora in North America: Migration, Ethnicity and Association, 1730s-1950s, the output of an AHRC funded grant.

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Tanja Bueltmann argues that amid the uproar about migrant populations trying to seek refuge within the UK, it is easy to forget the historic outward migration of Britons.

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Tanja Bueltmann is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Tanja Bueltmann worked at Northumbria University from February 2009 until July 2020, when she became chair in International History at the University of Strathclyde.

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Tanja Bueltmann is vocal in her support for Britain remaining in the European Union.

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Tanja Bueltmann was a member of the lobbying group "Historians for Britain in Europe" and describes herself as an EU citizen.

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Tanja Bueltmann was not surprised by the outcome of the EU referendum, but, as many others, has been troubled by the events since.

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Tanja Bueltmann was a guest speaker at the People's March for Europe in London in September 2017.

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Tanja Bueltmann has publicly spoken out against the government's Brexit reassurances.

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Tanja Bueltmann remains concerned about the rights of EU citizens in the UK, and Britons who live in the EU, and continues to take a vocal stand against their being used as bargaining chips in negotiations.

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Tanja Bueltmann later argued in the Times Higher Education, in a rebuttal to the then Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis's article addressed to EU nationals working in Higher Education, that what everyone failed to see was that the UK is not the destination for EU nationals, but their home.

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Since the EU referendum Tanja Bueltmann has focused primarily on the situation of the more than three million EU citizens at home in the UK and fighting for the protection of their rights.

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Tanja Bueltmann is working with other campaigners, politicians and policy organisations, including the German Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

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In July 2018, Tanja Bueltmann founded the EU Citizens' Champion campaign to facilitate that work.