Ties that bind and unbind

Charting the boundaries of European Union citizenship

Bibliographic Data

ID7843765
AuthorsAshley Mantha-Hollands, Jelena Dzankic (0000-0001-6365-5766)
Year2023
Volume49
Issue9
Pages2091-2108
Publication date2023-05-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2022.2107499
OpenAlexW4289933157
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited44

Acquiring or losing European Union (EU) citizenship is contingent on the possession of citizenship of one of the Member States. Since the early 1990s, scholars have debated the unique character of EU citizenship. Remarkably, these debates have paid scarcely any attention to how EU citizenship is (un)recognised through the different conceptions of membership in the 27 countries that make up its boundaries. This article argues that understanding the substance of EU citizenship requires a look into the different domains of citizenship laws in each of the Member States. We present a novel conceptual framework for studying citizenship regimes through four types of citizen-state links: lineage, territory, sponsorship and merit. We find that the disparity among the Member States in who is (un)seen as an EU citizen results from the different ways in which the four types of state-citizen links are articulated in the rules for citizenship acquisition and loss

Citizenship · Economics · European union · Member state · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Possession (linguistics · Sociology · State (computer science · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Systems and Governance