Mobility, Migrants, and Solidarity: Towards an Emerging European Citizenship Regime (original) (raw)

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The paper addresses the evolving concept of European citizenship amidst increasing transborder migration, particularly focusing on the implications for women's citizenship within the European Union. It outlines the historical context of migration patterns in Europe and examines the legal frameworks shaping citizenship rights. The study ultimately argues that an emerging European citizenship regime can foster solidarity and equality among migrants and citizens, challenging traditional notions of nationality-based citizenship.

Demographic Issues of Intra-European Migration: Destinations, Family and Settlement

European Journal of Population, 2015

The process of European integration has created a unique transnational space without internal borders. Citizens of the European Union are currently free to move to any of the 28 member states in search of work, education and career opportunities, for family reasons, or to broaden cultural horizons (Recchi 2005; Favell 2008a). Free movement has been at the core of the European integration project from the early days, although it was originally intended only for the economically active population (Baldoni 2003). After the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, which formally introduced the legal concept of a common European citizenship, the right to work and live in any member state was recognized for all EU citizens, irrespective of whether they were economically active or not. As an area currently comprising 28 countries with more than 500 million inhabitants, the European Union can be regarded as an exceptional research laboratory on legal and unrestricted transnational migration (Koikkalainen 2011). However, both research and public debate on migration in Europe have primarily focused on international migration from outside the EU, and less attention has been devoted to intra-European migration. A borderless Europe facilitates the transnationalization of the lives of European citizens. The ease of moving back and forth across countries has fostered permanent settlement as well as temporary, circular and onward migration, changing the

Navigating the European Migration Regime

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND Anna Wyss’ survey of the heavily politicised group of male migrants in Europe provides insightful analysis of both masculinity and the European migration crisis. The book tracks men’s repeated attempts to achieve permanent residence status and the successive detentions and deportations they endure. It measures the effects of precarity on their lives and explores the hope and vulnerability they experience.

International Migration in Europe

Revue européenne des migrations internationales, 2006

The working group on international migration in Europe of the European Association for Population Studies aims to promote discussion on migration issues. This book contains selected papers presented at the working group's second conference, which was held in Rome in November 2004. Some 130 researchers from 23 countries attended the conference for three days of stimulating debate.

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