Creating European Citizens

Author : Willem Maas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742575547

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Creating European Citizens by Willem Maas Pdf

Exploring a key aspect of European integration, this clear and thoughtful book considers the remarkable experiment with common rights and citizenship in the EU. Governments around the world traditionally distinguish insiders (citizens) from outsiders (foreigners). Yet over the past half-century, an extensive set of supranational rights has been created in Europe that removes member governments' authority to privilege their own citizens, a hallmark of sovereignty. The culmination of supranational rights, European citizenship not only provides individuals with choices about where to live and work but also forces governments to respect those choices. Explaining this innovation—why states cede their sovereignty and eradicate or redefine the boundaries of the political community by including "foreigners"—Willem Maas analyzes the development of European citizenship within the larger context of the evolution of rights. Imagining more than simply a free trade market, the goal of building a "broader and deeper community among peoples" with a "destiny henceforward shared"—creating European citizens—has informed European integration since its origins. The author argues that its success or failure will not only determine the future of Europe but will also provide lessons for political integration elsewhere.

Author : Elspeth Guild,Cristina Gortázar Rotaeche,Dora Kostakopoulou
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004251526

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The Reconceptualization of European Union Citizenship by Elspeth Guild,Cristina Gortázar Rotaeche,Dora Kostakopoulou Pdf

This book maps out, from a variety of theoretical standpoints, the challenges generated by European integration and EU citizenship for community membership, belonging and polity-making beyond the state. It does so by focusing on three main issues of relevance for how EU citizenship has developed and its capacity to challenge state sovereignty and authority as the main loci of creating and delivering rights and protection. First, it looks at the relationship between citizenship of the Union and European identity and assesses how immigration and access to nationality in the Member States impact on the development of a common European identity. Secondly, it discusses how the idea of solidarity interacts with the boundaries of EU citizenship as constructed by the entitlement and capacity of mobile citizens to enjoy equality and social rights as EU citizens. Thirdly, the book engages with issues of EU citizenship and equality as the building blocks of the EU project. By engaging with these themes, this volume provides a topical and comprehensive account of the present and future development of Union citizenship and studies the collisions between the realisation of its constructive potential and Member State autonomy.

Author : R. Bellamy,D. Castiglione,J. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230627475

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Making European Citizens by R. Bellamy,D. Castiglione,J. Shaw Pdf

Making European Citizens examines the forms of transnational citizenship developing in Europe. Active citizenship involves more than simply voting. Achieving mobilization at a transnational level may involve new democratic techniques and skills. The volume explores how far European citizens have acquired the requisite methods and qualities.

Author : Antje Wiener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429980336

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European Citizenship Practice by Antje Wiener Pdf

Although great efforts have been made to understand citizenship, it has remained a contested concept, largely because of the problem of the changing relationship between citizens and their community of membership or belonging. The European Union poses the most recent and dramatic change to this definition of citizenship. Arguing that citizenship must be explored from a perspective that takes this continual change into account, Antje Wiener develops the concept of citizenship practice; the process of policymaking and/or political participation which contributes to creating the terms of citizenship. The approach draws on both comparative social, historical literature on the state and the new historical institutionalism in European integration theories. “European” Citizenship Practice advances a discursive analysis of citizenship practice based on these related bodies of literature, which lie at the heart of this important contribution to citizenship studies.

Author : Paul Rünz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3828833160

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Making European Citizens? by Paul Rünz Pdf

Author : Sandra Seubert,Oliver Eberl,Frans van Waarden
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781788113540

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Reconsidering EU Citizenship by Sandra Seubert,Oliver Eberl,Frans van Waarden Pdf

25 years after the introduction of EU citizenship this book reconsiders its contradictions and constraints as well as promises and prospects. Analyzing a disputed concept and evaluating its implementation and social effects Reconsidering EU Citizenship contributes to the lively debate on European and transnational citizenship. It offers new insights for the ongoing theoretical debates on the future of EU citizenship – a future that will be determined by the transformative path the EU is going to take vis à vis the centrifugal forces of the current economic and political crisis.

Author : Michael Kuhn,Ronald G. Sultana
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820476005

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Homo Sapiens Europæus by Michael Kuhn,Ronald G. Sultana Pdf

In many ways, education mirrors society by reflecting changing and emergent goals and values as well as by contributing to both the reproduction and production of particular life forms. In the context of the formative project «Europe, » education is called upon to play an increasingly central role, one that is responsive to particular images of the European Union and to its aspirations and goals. The widespread conviction is that education and training will re-invigorate ailing economies, and that, in the context of globalization, national and regional competitiveness will only prevail if there is a qualitative continued improvement in human capital. This volume critically examines such claims, considering the ways in which learning is being constructed across Europe and the implications this has for notions of democratic citizenship and education.

Author : James Organ,Alberto Alemanno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786612879

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Citizen Participation in Democratic Europe by James Organ,Alberto Alemanno Pdf

"This book brings together academics as well as practitioners to give a forward-looking, holistic view of the realities of EU citizen participation across the spectrum of participatory opportunities"--

Author : Antonio Bartolini,Roberto Cippitani,Valentina Colcelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030005542

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Dictionary of Statuses within EU Law by Antonio Bartolini,Roberto Cippitani,Valentina Colcelli Pdf

This Dictionary analyses the ways in which the statuses of European citizens are profoundly affected by EU law. The study of one’s particular status (as a worker, consumer, family member, citizen, etc.) helps to reconsider the legal notions concerning an individual’s status at the EU level. The Dictionary includes a foreword by Evgeni Tanchev, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, which illustrates some interesting features of the Court’s case law on statuses.The Dictionary’s core is composed of 79 chapters, published in alphabetical order. Each brief chapter analyses how the individual status was conditioned or created by contemporary EU law, or how the process of European integration modified the traditional juridical definition of the respective status. The Dictionary provides answers to the following questions: Has the process of European integration modified the traditional juridical definition of individual status? Has the concept of legal status now acquired a new function? What role has EU law played in developing a new modern function for the concept of individual status? Are the selection of a specific individual status by EU law and the proliferation of such statuses, which is synonymous with the creation of new privileges, collectively undermining the goal of achieving substantive equality between EU citizens? Does this constitute a return to the past? Under EU law, is it possible to create a uniform definition of the legal status of the person, over and above the definition that is provided by a given Member State’s legal system?

Author : Sophie Meunier,Kathleen R. McNamara
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199218677

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Making History by Sophie Meunier,Kathleen R. McNamara Pdf

The contributors to this volume, all leading specialists in the field of EU studies, examine the trajectory of the EU and draw on the theoretical tools of historical institutionalism to assess the central political challenges facing the EU.

Author : Daniele Archibugi,Ali Emre Benli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351713177

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Claiming Citizenship Rights in Europe by Daniele Archibugi,Ali Emre Benli Pdf

While the European integration project is facing new challenges, abandonments and criticism, it is often forgotten that there are powerful legal instruments that allow citizens to protect and extend their rights. These instruments and the actions taken to activate them are often overlooked and deliberately ignored in the mainstream debates. This book presents a selection of cases in which legal institutions, social movements, avant-gardes and minorities have tried, and often succeeded, to enhance the current state of human rights through traditional as well as innovative actions. The chapters of this book investigate some of the cases in which the gap between the conventionally recognized rights and those advocated is becoming wider and where traditionally disadvantaged groups raise new problems or new issues are emerging concerning individual freedom, transparency and accountability, which are not yet properly addressed in the current political and legal landscape. Can political institutions and courts without coercive power of last resort actually foster more progressive rights? This book suggests that the expansion of human rights might be a viable strategy to generate a proper European citizenship. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Law and Society, Sociology and Migration Studies and more broadly to NGOs and policy advisers.

Author : Rainer Bauböck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 331989904X

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Debating European Citizenship by Rainer Bauböck Pdf

This open access book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state although it is derived from Member State nationality? Who should get it? What rights and duties does it entail? Should EU citizens living in other Member States be able to vote there in national elections? If there are tensions between free movement and social rights, which should take priority? And should the European Court of Justice determine what European citizenship is about or the legislative institutions of the EU or national parliaments? This book collects a wide range of answers to these questions from legal scholars, political scientists, and political practitioners. It is structured as a series of three conversations in which authors respond to each other. This exchange of arguments provides unique depth to the debate.

Author : Patricia Mindus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319517742

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European Citizenship after Brexit by Patricia Mindus Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This Open Access book investigates European citizenship after Brexit, in light of the functionalist theory of citizenship. No matter its shape, Brexit will impact significantly on what has been labelled as one of the major achievements of EU integration: Citizenship of the Union. For the first time an automatic and collective lapse of status is observed. It is a form of involuntary loss of citizenship en masse, imposed by the automatic workings of the law on EU citizens of exclusively British nationality. It does not however create statelessness and it is likely to be tolerated under international law. This loss of citizenship is connected to a reduction of rights, affecting not solely the former Union citizens but also second country nationals in the United Kingdom and their family members. The status of European citizenship and connected rights are first presented. Chapter Two focuses on the legal uncertainty that afflicts second country nationals in the United Kingdom as well as British citizens, turning from expats to post-European third country nationals. Chapter Three describes the functionalist theory and delineates three ways in which it applies to Brexit. These three directions of inquiry are developed in the following chapters. Chapter Four focuses on the intension of Union citizenship: Which rights can be frozen? Chapter Five determines the extension of Union citizenship: Who gets to withdraw the status? The key finding is that while Member states are in principle free to revoke the status of Union citizen, former Member states are not unbounded in stripping Union citizens of their acquired territorial rights. Conclusions are drawn and policy-suggestions summed up in the final chapter.

Author : Michael Dougan,Niamh Nic Shuibhne,Eleanor Spaventa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782250104

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Empowerment and Disempowerment of the European Citizen by Michael Dougan,Niamh Nic Shuibhne,Eleanor Spaventa Pdf

This collection of essays engages with a central theme in scholarship on EU citizenship – the emancipation of certain citizens, the alienation of others – and seeks to expand its horizons to interrogate whether similar debates and trends can be identified in other fields of European integration. The focus of the book is distinctly citizen focused. It delivers the potential for the opening out of analysis of the implications of European citizenship beyond the parameters of Articles 18-25 TFEU and beyond the disciplinary confines of legal analysis alone. The book construes 'EU citizenship' in its broadest sense, and explores the extent to which the European citizen is, or indeed is not, genuinely at the heart of EU law and policy-making. Within the broader theme of empowerment and disempowerment, the contributors reflect on a range of cross-cutting themes; for example, the extent to which channels of citizen participation (can) inform EU policy-making in a 'bottom-up' sense; or whether the EU is a catalyst for the construction of new spaces and new identities.

Author : Martin Steinfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108490894

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Fissures in EU Citizenship by Martin Steinfeld Pdf

EU citizenship law is revealed to have been a tragedy thirty years in the making in the era of Brexit.