Citizenship and Migration: Europe's 21st Century Challenges

Overview

Key facts:

• In the Citizenship and Migration: Europe's 21st Century Challenges course at the Radboud University, we explore the interconnected fields of EU citizenship and EU migration law and critically examine the constructions of the categories of 'citizen' and ' migrant' with a view to understand the differences that exist between EU citizens and migrants in relation to topics such as, the possibility to physically enter or leave the EU, the right to work or seek education, the right to family reunification or the right to be treated equally.
• While these issues are intrinsic to Western understandings of what it means to be a citizen of a nation state, the EU dimension brings new challenges to the constitutional arrangements that legally define the relationship between people and administration within a given territory.

• The course lectures explore how the introduction of EU citizenship - as a legal status capturing the relationship between nationals of the Member States and the EU - and the creation of a common policy on migration and asylum since 1999 challenge our assumptions about who is a citizen, where he/she belongs and what the content of citizenship is. We will equally discuss EU's claim that it is built on and committed to democratic values, human rights, and rule of law impacts on its policies and laws in the field of migration.

• The Citizenship and Migration: Europe's 21st Century Challenges programme is offered at the Radboud University.