Intra-European Migrants and The Question of Integration: <i>Citizenship In The Lives Of Finnish Migrants In Europe</i>

Abstract

Citizenship is defined in terms of national contexts, institutions, or practices. Apart from noting one's membership in a certain polity, citizenship can be understood to have -at least -three meanings as follows: it can signify access, identification, and practice. This article examines these three dimensions based on the experiences of highly skilled Finns living in other European Union member states. Do they adopt the legal citizenship of the new country to gain access to legal and civic rights? Do they begin to identify with and assimilate to their new home country? Is citizenship played out in the everyday life as practice? The article concludes that thanks to European citizenship, all three interpretations are present at the same time.Abstract: In the concept of the aesthetic formation of knowledge and its as soon as possible and success-oriented application, insights and profits without the reference to the arguments developed around 1900. The main investigation also includes the period between the entry into force and the presentation in its current version. Their function as part of the literary portrayal and narrative technique. Studies and InvestigationsThe main investigation also includes the period between the entry into force and the presentation in its current version. Their function as part of the literary portrayal and narrative technique.

Identity, Belonging and Strategic Citizenship. Considerations About Naturalisation Among Italians and Spaniards Living in the EU

“…Second, citizenship as agency and everyday practice that can both anticipate and transcend the acquisition of rights-providing a framework for political mobilisation (Isin, 2008)-seems to have little relevance in our case, as very few of our participants associate citizenship to claiming rights and recognition. Third, the right to vote in British or German national elections is of little interest among our participants and is not perceived as such as an incentive to justify the material and immaterial costs of naturalisation (Koikkalainen, 2019;Leuchter, 2014). Even though this "denationalised freedom" (Favell, 2008) linked to cosmopolitan lifestyles in global European cities such as London, Berlin or Paris may favour local and transnational membership (Koikkalainen, 2019), it can also result in a lack of the most important civic duty, that of voting in national elections.…”

“…Third, the right to vote in British or German national elections is of little interest among our participants and is not perceived as such as an incentive to justify the material and immaterial costs of naturalisation (Koikkalainen, 2019;Leuchter, 2014). Even though this "denationalised freedom" (Favell, 2008) linked to cosmopolitan lifestyles in global European cities such as London, Berlin or Paris may favour local and transnational membership (Koikkalainen, 2019), it can also result in a lack of the most important civic duty, that of voting in national elections.…”

“…European naturalisation studies have traditionally focused on non-EU migrants (Birkvad, 2019;Leuchter, 2014;Yanasmayan, 2015) and, more recently, a specific category of migrants known as the "onward migrants" who have used EU citizenship to relocate within the EU (see for example della Puppa & King, 2019). However, scholars have paid little attention to intra-EU migrant attitude towards new EU citizenship and the subjective meanings ascribed to citizenship take-up (for some exceptions, see Koikkalainen, 2019;Rother & Nebe, 2009). Intra-EU migrants generally enjoy the same legal status and freedom of movement as nationals, as well as a series of economic and social rights, such as nondiscrimination protection within the labour market, unemployment benefits, various forms of social assistance, simpler permanent residency procedures and full political rights at local elections (Shaw, 2020).…”

The politics of embedding and the right to remain in post-Brexit Britain

“…Such processes cannot be overlooked when considering embedding and the decisions migrants make about when and where to go and when to return. EU migrants have been an exception to other migrants in the UK in a sense that their right to remain has been more prevalent and partly governed by their membership in the EU (Koikkalainen, 2019).…”

“…EU migrants have been an exception to other migrants in the UK in a sense that their right to remain has been more prevalent and partly governed by their membership in the EU (Koikkalainen, 2019). However, since the Brexit referendum in 2016, they have been experiencing similar insecurities and uncertainties about their residence rights and future as many other migrant groups before them (Lulle et al., 2019).…”