Fissures in EU citizenship: the deconstruction and reconstruction of the legal evolution of EU citizenship

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 c...

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1. Verfasser: Steinfeld, Martin (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in European law and policy
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Is a 'worker' really a worker? A discursive assessment of the substantive evolution of the concept of the 'community worker' -- The role explicitly economically inactive and potentially socially excluded categories of individuals played in the subjective creation of EU citizenship -- A discourse of equal treatment? -- The citizen is born : literal utterances of the citizen prior to 1992 -- Genealogy and the potential for dismantling citizenship? -- Concluding remarks
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 394 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108859165
DOI:10.1017/9781108859165