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The Essence of European Citizenship Emerging from the Last Ten Years of Academic Debate : Beyond the Cherry Blossoms and the Moon?

Dimitry Kochenov
- 01 Jan 2013 - 
- Vol. 62, Iss: 1, pp 97-136
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In this paper, the authors examine the last ten years of the academic debate on EU citizenship law taking nine fundamental disagreements among scholars as starting points and explore EU citizenship's relationship with three groups of fundamental importance, including the place of this concept within the fabric of EU law, the influence on the essence of the Union as a system of multi-level governance and its impact on the lives of ordinary Europeans.
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This article scrutinizes the last ten years of the academic debate on EU citizenship law taking nine fundamental disagreements among scholars as starting points. It explores EU citizenship's relationship with three groups of issues of fundamental importance, including the place of this concept within the fabric of EU law, the influence of this concept on the essence of the Union as a system of multi-level governance, and its impact on the lives of ordinary Europeans. A large number of key works which influenced the Court and the legislator in the recent years is assessed to outline the likely direction of future research, as well as EU citizenship's future development. Although the literature on the subject is overwhelmingly rich and diverse, this article aspires to provide a representative sample of issues of interest for the framing of the concept at issue from a supranational perspective, necessarily leaving national literatures aside.

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Return of the Citizen: A Survey of Recent Work on Citizenship Theory

Will Kymlicka, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1994 - 
TL;DR: There has been an explosion of interest in the concept of citizenship among political theorists in the 1990s as discussed by the authors, and there are a number of reasons for this renewed interest in citizenship.
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Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity

TL;DR: The history of modern constitutionalism and its relationship with cultural diversity can be traced back to the discovery of cultural diversity in the early 19th century as discussed by the authors, when the Aboriginal and common law system and the convention of continuity were proposed.
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Beyond national models: Civic integration policies for immigrants in Western Europe

TL;DR: The authors argues that instead of diverging in terms of national models, Western European states' policies on immigrant integration are increasingly converging, and one convergent trend is obligatory civic integration courses and tests for newcomers.
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The Ethical Significance of Nationality

David Miller
- 01 Jul 1988 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defend the view that national boundaries may be ethically significant, arguing that the fundamental questions of ethics can be posed in some such form as: What duties do I owe to my fellow human beings? What rights do they have against me?' Here the basic principles are worked out without reference to social boundaries.