Citizenship in the shadow of the Euro crisis

Explaining changing patterns in naturalisation among intra-EU migrants

Bibliographic Data

ID7843477
AuthorsJohn Graeber (0000-0003-0911-8382, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume42
Issue10
Pages1670-1692
Publication date2016-08-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2016.1162353
OpenAlexW2314345827
LanguageEN
Citations received23
References cited24

The Euro crisis has transformed the European political and economic landscape. Amidst lingering political uncertainties, austerity, high unemployment, and diminished levels of trust in the European project, how has the Euro crisis affected the institution of citizenship within the European Union? While the development of EU citizenship and the number of rights and freedoms attached to it since the 1990s has progressively reduced the incentive of intra-EU migrants to acquire citizenship in other member states, I argue that the Euro crisis and its political and economic consequences have reinvigorated the perceived value of national citizenship. In its wake, many intra-EU migrants, and especially those from the most crisis-stricken countries, may have a renewed incentive naturalise in other member states. Using data collected for 14 Western European countries from 2000 to 2013, I demonstrate how a growing lack of trust in political institutions and economic hardship since the Euro crisis has inspired surprising new naturalisation trends across Europe. Rather than perpetuate a further decline of national citizenship in Europe, the Euro crisis appears to have rendered national citizenship once again politically consequential

Austerity · Citizenship · Development economics · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Incentive · Market economy · Naturalisation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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