The Interpretation of European Union Citizenship

Shaw, Jo

doi:10.1111/1468-2230.00145

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“…With the case-law of the Court being important, debates about EU citizenship have appealed to lawyers who have scrutinised the normative foundations and expanding content of EU citizenship in great detail (e.g. Giubboni, 2010;Jacobs, 2007;O'Neill and Sandler, 2008;Reich, 2001Reich, , 2005Shaw, 1998;Spaventa, 2007;Wollenschläger, 2011). Two aspects of these debates are of particular interest here: first, the contested nature of EU citizenship as a form of 'post-national citizenship', and second, EU citizenship's gendered foundations.…”

Section: Eu Citizenshipmentioning

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Tale of Two Citizenships? Citizenship, Migration and Care in the European Union

Askola

2012

Social & Legal Studies

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This paper examines the normative content of European Union citizenship with the aid of recent feminist research into gendered citizenship, care and migration. Feminist literature shows how long-standing feminist issues around care and domestic work are now made more prominent by the increasing formal employment of European women and the corresponding involvement of female migrant workers, often with precarious legal status, in performing childcare and domestic tasks in Europe. The literature on this phenomenon can be used to bring together two kinds of marginalisation built into Union citizenship -the explicit exclusion of those who are not Union citizens and the more implicit barriers that are based on a gendered division of labour. While optimistic analyses of Union citizenship assume its current limitations can be overcome, feminist research into gendered citizenship, care and migration actually shows they are part and parcel of how Union citizenship is currently conceived, making it difficult to change.

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Section: Eu Citizenshipmentioning

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Tale of Two Citizenships? Citizenship, Migration and Care in the European Union

Askola

2012

Social & Legal Studies

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“…European citizenship as formalized in the latest Treaties of Maastricht was claimed to not introduce any political novelty or additional rights. While some observe that it cannot be an instant panacea to discontent about the remoteness of European governance and the low degree of democratic participation (Shaw, 1998), others charge it with being 'nearly exclusively a symbol plaything without substantive content' (Jessurun d 'Oliveira, 1995, p. 82). Jessurun d'Oliveira goes on to expand on his criticism: the core and origin of Union citizenship is the right to free movement.…”

Section: On the Road To European Citizenship And Identity: 'No One Famentioning

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European Higher Education Policy and the Formation of Entrepreneurial Students as Future European Citizens

Papatsiba

2009

European Educational Research Journal

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In this article, the author argues that European education policies and rhetoric are imbued with orthodoxy of agency and models of empowered, entrepreneurial actors, striving to surpass the limits of national boundaries. Free circulation of citizens has progressively underpinned a new construction of 'the European', who is entrepreneurial, flexible and mobile. Ideals and practices of mobility have been premised on two competing agendas: one that focuses on economic imperatives, and the other that relates to a tradition of forming the citizenry. European Union higher education policy via student mobility programmes has been an effective vehicle for conveying images and models of the European citizen, untied from national bounds and with a thirst for new ventures and learning opportunities apt to convert into skills and capital. Arguably these policies, as rationalities with governing ends, aim to form identities and subjectivities. Although it can be argued that new facets of agency are made available to those who are willing to embrace entrepreneurial models, the question is whether and how these 'talk back' to a society and a polity in search of common good.

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“…17 In other words, there has been a simultaneous breakdown of social and political consensus internal to European nation-states along with a new 744 Philosophy & Social Criticism 33 (6) wave of immigrants that must be politically incorporated into overburdened democratic institutions. We cannot therefore fall back on a shared political identity that has already been weakened at the national level as a way to resolve the dilemma.…”

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Challenging Habermas' response to the European Union democratic deficit

Bowman

2007

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Jürgen Habermas' response to the European Union democratic deficit calls for a minimal threshold of democratic legislation through an explicit constitutional founding. He defends a model of freedom as autonomous self-determination by proposing to tie basic rights in the EU to a univocal form of European-wide popular sovereignty. Instead of constructing a common European political identity, I appeal to the novel democratic potential of institutions in the EU such as the Open Method of Coordination for mediating overlapping sovereignties in accord with freedom as non-domination. The concluding example of basic rights to effective participation for immigrants and permanent minorities illustrates the strengths of Iris Young's and James Bohman's republican views of non-domination over Habermas' call for a European-wide collective willing.Key words James Bohman · democratic deficit · European Union · freedom · Jürgen Habermas · non-domination · Open Method of Coordination · republicanism · sovereignty · Iris Young Although the number of European Union (EU) policies and laws that affect the citizens of its member states increases each year, citizens remain skeptical concerning their prospects for real deliberative influence over EU level decision-making. Hence, arises what has come to be known as the democratic deficit. In formulating a response, Jürgen Habermas has called for the European-wide integration of the willformation of EU citizens through the founding of an explicit constitution. According to this minimal threshold of democratic legislation, citizens would authorize the laws and policies to which they are held subject through the creation of institutions that foster European-wide PSC

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The Interpretation of European Union Citizenship

Cited by 104 publications

References 4 publications

Tale of Two Citizenships? Citizenship, Migration and Care in the European Union

Tale of Two Citizenships? Citizenship, Migration and Care in the European Union

European Higher Education Policy and the Formation of Entrepreneurial Students as Future European Citizens

Challenging Habermas' response to the European Union democratic deficit

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