Research Catalog

Title

Citizenship, identity, and immigration in the European Union : between past and future / Theodora Kostakopoulou.

Author

Kostakopoulou, Theodora.

Publication

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

ix, 214 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

European citizenship, identity and immigration are constitutive issues facing the European polity and have important consequences for domestic political systems. This study, of citizenship within the setting of the nation-state and comparative immigration policies, concentrates on their theorization in a post-national, post-statist context, such as the EU, and on alternative European institutional designs. By blending normative political theory with European integration, this volume develops an original theoretical framework for European Union citizenship, identity and immigration as well as a set of policy proposals for institutional reform. Challenging the conventionally held views in these areas, the author argues that a constructive model of European citizenship and identity is vital to the construction of a democratic, heterogeneous and inclusive European polity. The book shouldappeal to academics and political actors concerned with issues of European governance as well as to undergraduate and postgraduate students of European politics, European integration, European Union Law, political theory and sociology.

Subject

• European Union
• Nationalism > European Union countries
• European Union countries > Emigration and immigration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-198) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. European identity -- Conditions of possibility for a European identity -- A typology of European identity options -- 2. The institutional construction of European identity -- The emergence of European identity on the European political agenda -- The Maastricht settlement -- 3. New horizons, old constraints and the Amsterdam compromise -- European citizenship as a new form of citizenship -- 'That dangerous supplement ...?' -- The incremental adaptation of national citizenship -- The Amsterdam compromise -- 4. In search of a theory of European citizenship -- The sociological paradigm -- Thd status-based v a practice-based conception of European citizenship -- Citizenship on an-'other' register: identity, difference and the logic of community -- New schemas of citizenship beyond the nation-state -- 5. Constructive citizenship in the European Union -- Constructive citizenship: an argument -- 6. Schengenland and its alternative -- The 'protective' Union, and mutating state and the evolving doctrine of immigration control -- Rethinking immigration -- Undocumented migration -- An alternative framework for a European migration policy -- 7. European identity in praxis: from the land ethic to an ethic of dwelling -- The land ethic -- Dwelling, boundaries and belonging: Heideggerian insights -- Do heterotopias matter?

ISBN

0719059984

LCCN

^^2001030114

OCLC

• 45888959
• SCSB-10304520

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library