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Work package 1. Directing research

This work package provides intellectual leadership on reassessing European citizenship by focusing on its key concepts ‘acts of citizenship’ and ‘enacting citizenship’. It is also responsible for developing a virtual collaborative research environment based on Web 2.0 technologies. 


News

The right to vote for EU migrants in Ireland
EU migrants living in Ireland will have the right to vote
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WP1: Countdown to the Launch of ENACT Website
The ENACT website, which is designed with Web 2.0 technologies, will become operational on 19 April.
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WP1: Initial information on the outcome of the evaluation of proposals
The Commission services with the help of independent experts evaluates the proposal submitted for Call ID FP7-SSH-2007–1.
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Events

Blog

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.
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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’.
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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.
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Enacting European Citizenship (IV): Methods
The main object of analysis in this research is ‘acts’ within the context of statuses and habitus as modes of enactment and subjects, scales and sites as media of enactment.
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Investigators

Engin F. Isin
Open University
e.f.isin@open.ac.uk

Anne Paynter
The Open University
A.M.Paynter@open.ac.uk


Researchers

Engin F. Isin
Open University
e.f.isin@open.ac.uk