This book provides a critique of the way in which European citizenship is imagined SERIES EDITORS: and practiced. Setting their analysis in its full historical context, the authors MICHELLE EGAN · NEILL NUGENT · WILLIAM E. PATERSON challenge preconceived ideas about European citizenship on the basis of a detailed reconstruction of political, social and economic practice. In particular,
Challenging European Citizenship
Agustín José Menéndez · Espen D. H. Olsen they show the extent to which the elimination of formal internal borders within Europe has come hand in glove with the emergence of new socio-economic boundaries and the hardening of external borders. The book concludes with a number of concrete proposals to forge a genuinely post-national form of membership.
Agustín José Menéndez is Lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,
Spain, and Visiting Researcher, ARENA, University of Oslo, Norway. He is co- author of The Constitution’s Gift (with J.E. Fossum, 2011). He was chief editor of the European Law Journal (2013-2018). Espen D. H. Olsen is Senior Researcher, ARENA – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Transnational Citizenship in the European Union: Past, Present and Future (2012).