Fissures in EU Citizenship

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-49089-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 750 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy

This book argues that core concepts in EU citizenship law are riddled with latent fissures traceable back to the earliest case law on free movement of persons, and that later developments simply compounded such defects. By looking at these defects, not only could Brexit have been predicted, but it could also have been foreseen that unchecked problems with EU citizenship would potentially lead to its eventual dismantling during an era of widespread populism and considerable challenges to further integration. Using a critical constructivist approach, the author painstakingly outlines the 'temple' of citizenship from its foundations upwards, and offers a deconstruction of concepts such as 'worker', the role of non-economic actors, the principle of equal treatment, and utterances of citizenship. In identifying inherent fissures in the concept of solidarity and post national identification, this book poses critical questions and argues that we need to reconstruct EU citizenship from the bottom up.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steinfeld, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Contaminated Citizenship; Part I. Fissures in the Foundations of the Temple: 1. Is a 'Worker' really a worker? A discursive assessment of the substantive evolution of the concept of the 'Community worker'; 2. The role explicitly economically inactive and potentially socially excluded categories of individuals played in the subjective creation of EU Citizenship; Part II. The Crumbling Pillars of the Temple: 3. A discourse of Equal Treatment?; 4. The Citizen is born – Literal utterances of the Citizen prior to 1992; Part III. Could the Roof of the Temple Cave in?: 5. Genealogy and the potential for dismantling Citizenship?; Concluding Remarks.

Über Autor(innen)

Steinfeld, Martin
Martin Steinfeld is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and the University Advocate, University of Cambridge.  He is also a College Lecturer, Director of Studies in law and Dean at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.