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Enacting European Citizenship (I): An Overview
European citizenship is a derivative citizenship. It derives from the constituent states and their principles of jus sanguinis (blood), jus soli (birth) or jus domicili (residence). The European Union cannot grant these citizenship rights by itself. It is often said that European citizenship is a citizenship without a demos. Enacted in 1992 with an explicit aim to address the democratic deficit in the EU, European citizenship now provides certain rights, especially mobility rights, to the ‘nationals’ of the constituent states of Europe. But the multiple constitution of its demos socially, politically and legally is its most major challenge if it… Read more >
Enacting European Citizenship (II): Objectives
Our aim in this research project is to enter into the question over European citizenship from a perspective which we call ‘acts of citizenship’. But before we articulate this concept we need to provide a brief account of the debates over citizenship in the last two decades. As is often stated, the debate over citizenship has focused on two distinct but related aspects: citizenship as status and citizenship as practice. There are studies that insist that citizenship should be understood as status, especially as membership in the state. These focus on residence, naturalization, passport, immigration, and deportation. There are studies… Read more >
Enacting European Citizenship (III): Concepts
The concept of ‘act of citizenship’ is a new concept used in citizenship studies to designate how citizens and non-citizens can enact themselves as citizens. It is different from ‘active citizenship’ and, in fact, it can even be considered its opposite. Active citizenship demonstrates how those already designated as citizens fulfil their duties. Mostly focused on civic and political duties, active citizenship has been extensively discussed in European and North American social and political thought. The debate over active citizenship almost exclusively focused on the issue of decline of ‘active citizenship’ evidenced by declining voting patterns and democratic participation in… Read more >
Authors
Open University
e.f.isin@open.ac.uk
The Open University
A.M.Paynter@open.ac.uk
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The project ENACT is a ‘Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities’ Programme with the call FP7-SSH-2007-1 by the European Commission.