EU Citizenship and Free Movement Rights: Taking Supranational Citizenship Seriously (Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe; Volume 47) by Edited by Sandra Mantu, Paul Minderhoud, and Elspeth Guild - 2020

BRILL, 2020. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This volume consists of 18 essays by law, political science, and other scholars from Europe, who discuss citizenship and migration status in the context of European Union citizenship, its practical application at the national and local levels, its contestation through judicial or administrative practices, and citizens' enactment of their status. They examine the appeal of European Union citizenship for citizens who have decided to make use of their free movement and the attraction of citizenship in relation to family reunion, including the position of children as sponsors, different approaches taken by the European Court of Justice concerning the right of European Union citizens to be joined by third-country national family members, and the legal and administrative barriers faced by citizens and their families in Spain. They then address how equality and access to the welfare state are negotiated at the European Union and national levels, including access to social rights for economically inactive citizens, how member states deal with residence rights, how Belgium has dealt with social claims made by mobile European Union citizens, and welfare and social security entitlements for displaced European Union citizens in Sweden; how residence rights are terminated at the national level on public policy and public security grounds and the move toward extending the scope of these concepts to include to abuse of rights and lack of resources, including expulsion practices, French legal practice and expulsions of Roma populations, the UK policy on European Union citizens sleeping rough, and removal and exclusion orders in Irish law; and implications of European Union citizenship as a fundamental status in the context of European Union integration and disintegration, with discussion of the impact of Brexit, free movement rights in light of the accession of Central and Eastern European countries, and how European Union citizenship changes the geometry of people, territory, and sovereign authority in relation to the power to decide who is present on state territory. (2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)