Questioning EU Citizenship


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The question of supranational citizenship is one of the more controversial in EU law. It is politically contested, the object of prominent court rulings and the subject of intense academic debates. This important new collection examines this vexed question, paying particular attention to the Court of Justice. Offering analytical readings of the key cases, it also examines those political, social and normative factors which influence the evolution of citizens' rights. This examination is not only timely but essential given the prominence of citizen rights in recent political debates, including in the Brexit referendum. All of these questions will be explored with a special emphasis on the interplay between immigration from third countries and rules on Union citizenship.




EU Citizenship and Social Rights


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In the 1990s, the Maastricht Treaty introduced the right to free movement for EU citizens. In practice, however, there are substantial barriers to making use of this right, particularly to integration and to accessing the social and welfare rights available. This is particularly true when it comes to accessing social rights, such as social assistance, housing benefit, study grants and health care. This book provides a detailed description and thorough analysis of these barriers, in both law and practice.




EU Citizenship and Free Movement Rights


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EU citizenship and Free Movement Rights examines how EU citizenship reconstructs in unexpected ways what citizenship as a status means and stands for in relation to family reunification, social rights, expulsion and discusses the effects of Brexit for EU citizens.




The fringes of citizenship


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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book presents a socio-legal enquiry into the civic marginalisation of Roma in Europe. Instead of looking only at Roma’s position as migrants, an ethnic minority or a socio-economically disadvantage group, it considers them as European citizens, questioning why they are typically used to describe exceptionalities of citizenship in developed liberal democracies rather than as evidence for how problematic the conceptualisation of citizenship is at its core. Developing novel theoretical concepts, such as the fringes of citizenship and the invisible edges of citizenship, the book investigates a variety of topics around citizenship, including migration and free movement, statelessness and school segregation, as well as how marginalised minorities respond to such predicaments. It argues that while Roma are unique as a minority, the treatment that marginalises them is not. This is demonstrated by comparing their position to that of other marginalised minorities around the globe.




Debating European Citizenship


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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.




The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm


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The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm explores the ongoing strength and insidious grip of couple-normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting national contexts: the UK, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal. By investigating how the couple-norm is lived and experienced, how it has changed over time, and how it varies between places and social groups, this book provides a detailed analysis of changing intimate citizenship regimes in Europe, and makes a major intervention in understandings of the contemporary condition of personal life. The authors develop the feminist concept of ‘intimate citizenship’ and propose the new concept of ‘intimate citizenship regime’, offering a study of intimate citizenship regimes as normative systems that have been undergoing profound change in recent decades. Against the backdrop of processes of de-patriarchalization, liberalization, pluralization and homonormalization, the ongoing potency of the couple-norm becomes ever clearer.




Citizenship and Solidarity in the European Union


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A serious and plural reflection about Human Rights, democracy and economy in the European Union, under the scenario of the deepest economic and social crisis of the last decades, precarious labour market and deregulation, and a growing distance between citizens and political elites. With the participation of known scholars from the EU and Brazil.




Questioning EU Citizenship


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Introduction : the judicial deconstruction of Union citizenship / Daniel Thym -- Extending citizenship rights and losing it all : brexit and the perils of "over-constitutionalisation" / Susanne K Schmidt -- The citizenship of personal circumstances in Europe / Dimitry Kochenov -- (De)Constructing the road to brexit : paving the way to further limitations on free movement and equal treatment? / Stephanie Reynolds -- Why did the citizenship jurisprudence change? / Urška Šadl and Suvi Sankari -- The evolution of citizens : rights in light of the European Union's constitutional development / Daniel Thym -- The engine of "europeanness" : free movement, social transnationalism and European identification / Ettore Recchi -- European citizenship and transnational rights : chronicles of a troubled narrative / Francesca Strumia -- Consolidating union citizenship : residence and solidarity rights for jobseekers and the economically inactive in the post-Dano era / Ferdinand Wollenschläger -- Back to the roots : no access to social assistance for Union citizens who are economically inactive / Paul Minderhoud and Sandra Mantu -- Integrating Union citizenship and the Charter of Fundamental Rights / Niamh Nic Shuibhne -- The constitutional status of foreigners and European Union citizens : loopholes and interactions in the scope of application of fundamental rights / Sara Iglesias Sánchez -- The integration exception : a new limit to social rights of third-country nationals in European Union law? / Karin De Vries -- Membership without naturalisation? : the limits of European Court of Human Rights case law on residence security and equal treatment / Clíodhna Murphy -- Conclusion : the non-simultaneous evolution of citizens' rights / Dora Kostakopoulou and Daniel Thym




The Defence of Constitutionalism


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EU Citizenship and Free Movement Rights


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This collective volume examines how EU citizenship reconstructs in unexpected ways what citizenship as a status means and stands for. EU citizenship can neither be accurately described as a citizenship status similar to national citizenship, nor as an immigration one. The book examines the tension at the heart of attempts to grasp the nature of EU citizenship as supranational status in relation to family reunification, social rights and expulsion. It shows that while events such as Brexit stress the importance of EU citizenship, the construction of supranational citizenship along the axis of non-discrimination and equality remains a work in progress that requires the efforts of all actors involved - institutions, implementing authorities, courts and citizens.