“The power under review is an unusually strong one in international terms. It extends further than the laws of most comparable countries in Europe, North America or Australasia. Yet it has so far attracted less controversy than the recent introduction Read More …
This paper addresses the question of whether naturalization affects identification with the host country on the part of first generation immigrants in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study contributes to the literature on the positive effects Read More …
By John Graeber, JEMS, April 2016
The Euro crisis has transformed the European political and economic landscape. Amidst lingering political uncertainties, austerity, high unemployment, and diminished levels of trust in the European project, how has the Euro crisis affected the institution of citizenship within the European Union? While the development of EU citizenship and the number of rights and freedoms attached to it since the 1990s has progressively reduced the incentive of intra-EU migrants to acquire citizenship in other member states, I argue that the Euro crisis and its political and economic consequences have reinvigorated the perceived value of national citizenship. In its wake, many intra-EU migrants, and especially those from the most crisis-stricken countries, may have a renewed incentive naturalise in other member states. Using data collected for 14 Western European countries from 2000 to 2013, I demonstrate how a growing lack of trust in political institutions and economic hardship since the Euro crisis has inspired surprising new naturalisation trends across Europe. Rather than perpetuate a further decline of national citizenship in Europe, the Euro crisis appears to have rendered national citizenship once again politically consequential.
Read the article at JEMS website.
In the wake of the November 13 terrorist attack, French president François Hollande decided to reinforce France’s security legislation. In addition to a raft of police and intelligence measures, he proposed two major constitutional revisions: the first was to “constitutionalize” the state of emergency, previously an ad hoc piece of legislation; the second was to formalize the conditions under which French citizens can be stripped of their nationality.
The research monograph We the Burden: Equal Citizenship and Its Limits in EU Law is a critical study of the scope of EU citizenship as an ‘equal status’ of all Member State nationals. The book re-conceptualises the relationship between the Read More …
In 212 CE, the emperor Caracalla extended citizenship to nearly all free-born residents of the Roman Empire. In doing so, he transformed not only his own, but the very ideal of empire and statehood in Europe. This volume first inquires Read More …
The French president François Hollande has dropped the draft legislation aimed at stripping convicted terrorists who are also dual nationals of their French passports and deporting them. The draft constitutional provisions had caused divisions within the president’s ruling Socialist party Read More …
The Parliament of Uruguay has approved a law that naturalises not only children (as is the case at present) but also grandchildren born to Uruguayans who have settled abroad. This will enable the said persons to vote, in case they Read More …
The former president of Romania Traian Basescu and his wife are seeking the citizenship of Moldova. They base their decision of shared origins with the Moldovan people. Around half a million of Moldovan citizens benefitted from Romania’s external citizenship policy Read More …
Floris de Witte, Rainer Bauböck and Jo Shaw (eds.): Freedom of movement under attack: Is it worth defending as the core of EU citizenship?. EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2016/69. Read More …
