The State and the Citizen-as-Migrant. How Free Movement Changes the Social Contract

Speaking too little, yet saying too much. The wrong signals about EU values: X. v. Belgian State,

“…EU citizenship law stands for an idea of reflexive recognition between the one and the other, between the citizen on the one hand, and the migrant or third country national on the other hand. 111 It is this idea that, if explored and interpreted further, could help problematize the carving out of third country nationals from the scope of article 21 of the Charter. The Court however in this ruling, rather than advancing this ethos of recognition, sits in denial: the third country national is not the citizen.…”