See also: Who is the European citizen? Who is the refugee?
The refugee crisis is the latest in a series of crises that have hit Europe and the European Union. Often taken to be a crisis of institutions and management, it is also a crisis of real people ‘on the ground’ of European politics, both citizens and refugees alike. At the same time, the member states of the European Union have experienced a surge in calls for 'renationalisation' and a move back to more pronounced notions of national citizenship. The handling of the Eurocrisis and the reforms of national economies that followed in its wake have revealed a crisis of representation and increased discontent with politics 'beyond the nation-state'. Once seen as part of the democratic solution, European citizenship is now increasingly seen as a part of the problem.
Under the title 'Who is the European citizen? Who is the refugee? Personal statuses between globalisation, Europeanisation and the refugee crisis' this workshop critically discussed the current relationship between citizenship and European integration.
The participants addressed two sets of inter-related challenges. The first set of interventions probed and critically discussed how European integration has impacted conceptions of citizenship in a political and legal sense. The second set of interventions drew attention to how the conceptualization of European citizenship has impacted on the definition of the other personal statuses in European law with a particular emphasis on the definition of European and national asylum policy.
The interdisciplinary workshop brought together legal scholars, political scientists, political sociologists and historians to address these issues.
Programme
Session I
Chair: John Erik Fossum, ARENA
| 9.00 – 9.30 |
European citizenship: Looking back and looking forwards Espen D. H. Olsen, ARENA & Agustín J. Menéndez, ARENA |
| 9.45 – 10.20 |
What has European integration done to citizenship Catherine Colliot-Thélène, Université de Rennes 1 |
| 10.30 – 11.05 |
The economically non-active: Inclusion and exclusion in EU citizenship law and politics Sandra Mantu, Radboud University |
| 11.15 – 12.10 | Debate led by Mads Andenæs, University of Oslo |
| 12.10 – 13.00 | Lunch |
Session II
Chair: Anne Elizabeth Stie, University of Agder
| 13.10 – 13.45 |
Brexiting citizenship? Hans-Jörg Trenz, ARENA and University of Copenhagen and Charlotte Galpin, University of Copenhagen |
| 13.45 – 14.20 |
European citizenship since 1951: public or private autonomy or both? Stefanie Pukallus, University of Sheffield |
| 14.30 – 15.05 |
The refugee crises as reflex of the impact of Europeanisation on other personal statuses Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, CNRS |
| 15.05 – 16.00 | Debate led by Cathrine Holst , ARENA |
| 16.00 – 16.30 |
Closing reflections Massimo La Torre, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro |
Workshop outline and programme (pdf)
The workshop is organised as part of the EuroDiv project (Integration and division: Towards a segmented Europe?)