Limits of European citizenship : European integration and domestic immigration policies / Maarten Vink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vink, Maarten Peter, 1975-

Series:

Migration, minorities, and citizenship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

Netherlands--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Netherlands.

European Union countries--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

European Union countries.

Social integration--Netherlands.

Social integration.

Social integration--European Union countries.

Citizenship--Netherlands.

Citizenship.

Citizenship--European Union countries.

Physical Description:

xiii, 209 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Summary:

Maarten Vink explores change and resilience of citizenship under pressure from European integration. To assess the meaning of national and European citizenship the book analyses parliamentary immigration debates from the 1990s in The Netherlands. The hesitant penetration of 'Europe' in these domestic debates on issues of asylum, resident status and nationality evidences the continuing relevance of domestic politics for the extension of membership and rights to non-citizens. In contrast with sociological and political studies arguing that national citizenship is being ever more hollowed out by an ongoing process of European integration, this book demonstrates the resilience of national citizenship and thereby also the unsettled nature of European citizenship.

Contents:

1.1 Limits of citizenship? 1

1.2 Citizenship and immigration 8

1.3 Mechanisms of domestic change 11

1.4 Europeanization and European integration 15

1.5 The case of the Netherlands 18

2 Citizenship 24

2.2 A contingently contested concept 25

2.3 Membership and rights 27

2.4 Urban citizenship 29

2.5 National citizenship 32

2.6 Post-national citizenship 36

3 European Citizenship 42

3.2 A 'People's Europe'? 43

3.3 Union citizenship 48

3.4 Fundamental rights 52

3.5 Citizens and the European 'Constitution' 56

4 Immigration and European Integration 66

4.2 Negative and positive integration 67

4.3 Towards a common European immigration policy? 72

4.4 Nice and the Constitutional Treaty 81

5 Asylum 90

5.2 Refugee protection in postwar Europe 91

5.3 Burden-sharing in the European Union 94

5.4 Dutch asylum policy 100

5.5 Dutch asylum policy in a European perspective 103

5.6 Government and parliament 108

6 Resident Status 116

6.2 Union citizens 117

6.3 Third country nationals 123

6.4 Dutch minorities policy 127

6.5 Equal treatment 128

6.6 Differential treatment 132

7 Nationality 139

7.2 Union citizenship and member state nationality 140

7.3 Nationality conventions of the Council of Europe 144

7.4 Dutch citizenship policy 146

7.5 The domestic impact of the European Union 149

7.6 The domestic impact of the Council of Europe 152

8 The Outlook for European Citizenship 158

Appendix A Asylum Applications in EU Member States, 1984-2003 170

Appendix B EURODAC 'Category 1 against Category 1' Hits, 2003 172.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis--Universiteit Leiden, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-203) and index.

ISBN:

1403939365

OCLC:

57749578

Publisher Number:

9781403939364