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Work package 3. Enacting mobility: a more democratic European citizenship?
The EU is caught in a paradoxical situation of a denationalization of the economic and security space with a re-nationalization of political discourse. This paradox has translated in the EU into an attempt to produce a European nationalism conceptualized in terms of value integration. While European citizenship is modelled upon the national conceptualizations of citizenship, the EU as a multi-level political and socio-economic project inherently questions the primacy of the national reference. This work package challenges the value-oriented concept of European citizenship derived from the national models of member states by investigating ‘acts’ of mobile citizens and their implications for constituting a genuinely democratic European citizenship.
News
Romanian media report on controversial statement about European citizenship
The Romanian news agency, MEDIAFAX, as well as the national dailies have reported a statement by the French ambassador in Romania, Henri Paul, saying that the 'notion of European citizens does not exist'.Read more >
Romanian race attack victims housed for own safety in Belfast sports centre
Guardian reports that "Up to 20 families moved by police after rally in support of eastern Europeans targeted by youths throwing bottles." guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 June 2009 08.40 BSTRead more >
Migrants unite in hunger strike at Schiphol detention center
March 3rd, 2009 · Description of the protests and of the 'The Dutch Detention Complex'Read more >
Events
Blog
On marginality
In her recent WP2 ENACT blog, Dr Rutvica Andrijasevic drew attention to the potential links between the ENACT project and Judith Butler's work, focusing attention in particular on the importance of moving away from a focus on inclusion (inside/outside) and instead developing a framework that takes focuses on differential recognition and precarity (see http://www.enacting-citizenship.eu/index.php/sections/blog_post/275/ ). This blog forms the starting point for WP3's response to this suggestion, and draws in part on Dr Vicki Squire's initial response to Dr Andrijasevic's suggestion.Read more >
The Roma in Italy: racism as usual?
Analysis of the situation of the Roma in ItalyRead more >
Democracy in the EU
Different EU documents reveal a limited concept of democracy that is taken up by EU institutions.Read more >
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Investigators
Open University
j.p.a.huysmans@open.ac.uk
Open University
c.e.aradau@open.ac.uk
Open University
v.j.squire@open.ac.uk
Researchers
The project ENACT is a ‘Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities’ Programme with the call FP7-SSH-2007-1 by the European Commission.