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Work package 5. Acts of citizenship and the expansion of the political
This work package investigates how those excluded by EU citizenship schemes, mainly third country nationals and undocumented migrants in the EU, become claimants of rights and pose challenges to the boundaries of political community and political space envisaged by the EU. Instead of focusing on the legal and political framework of the EU and the member states, and/or of other rights regimes as the sources of claims, this work package concentrates on the ‘acts’ of citizenship of the excluded in Hungary and Germany through which the participatory claims are performed and the boundaries of the political and the public are challenged. These acts of citizenship refer to the performances of those who are ‘in but not of EU’ in being claimants of rights despite their legal status and citizenship.
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Events
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Setting up research
The second progress reportRead more >
Setting up research
The first progress reportRead more >
Acts of Citizenship and the Expansion of the Political
In understanding the social dynamics of participation in societies, scholars of citizenship underline the increasing disjuncture of formal and substantive citizenship rights and examine the practices of citizenship rights (mostly anchored in supranational institutions and human rights regimes) rather than the formal status of membership. Moreover they have expanded the concept of citizenship by decoupling formal and substantive citizenship rights and distinguishing between cultural and social citizenships.Read more >
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Investigators
Central European University
caglara@ceu.hu
Central European University
rajaramp@ceu.hu
Researchers
The project ENACT is a ‘Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities’ Programme with the call FP7-SSH-2007-1 by the European Commission.