This book provides a critique of the way in which European citizenship is imagined and practiced. Setting their analysis in its full historical context, the authors challenge preconceived ideas about European citizenship on the basis of a detailed reconstruction of political, social and economic practice. In particular, they show the extent to which the elimination of formal internal borders within Europe has come hand in glove with the emergence of new socio-economic boundaries and the hardening of external borders. The book concludes with a number of concrete proposals to forge a genuinely post-national form of membership.

Traces legal and political developments of European citizenship since the first treaties Looks at the transformation of the different forms of relationship between the European Union and the individual Combines empirical analysis with theoretical questions about citizenship

Autorentext
Agustín José Menéndez is Lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and Visiting Researcher, ARENA, University of Oslo, Norway. He is co-author of The Constitution's Gift (with J.E. Fossum, 2011). He was chief editor of the European Law Journal (2013-2018). Espen D. H. Olsen is Senior Researcher, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Transnational Citizenship in the European Union: Past, Present and Future (2012).

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. The Yardstick: The Concept and the Conception of Citizenship.- Chapter 2. The Conept and the Conception of Citizenship.- Part II. From the European Personal Status to European Citizenship.- Chapter 3. The Ambivalence of European Integration: Between Proto-Citizenship and a Shared Nationality.- Chapter 4. European Citizenship: Between Formal Status and Practice.- Part III. From European Citizenship to Citizenship?.- Chapter 5. From Practice to Theory: Academic Discourses on European Citizenship. Chapter 6. Conclusions.