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Provides the first scholarly book on the consequences of Brexit on the regulation of nationality and migration, and as an Open Access publication
Explores the impact of Brexit on residence rights of EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in EU member states
Uses a functionalist theory of citzenship that results in concrete policy-suggestions
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This Open Access book investigates European citizenship after Brexit, in light of the functionalist theory of citizenship. No matter its shape, Brexit will impact significantly on what has been labelled as one of the major achievements of EU integration: Citizenship of the Union. For the first time an automatic and collective lapse of status is observed. It is a form of involuntary loss of citizenship en masse, imposed by the automatic workings of the law on EU citizens of exclusively British nationality. It does not however create statelessness and it is likely to be tolerated under international law. This loss of citizenship is connected to a reduction of rights, affecting not solely the former Union citizens but also second country nationals in the United Kingdom and their family members.
The status of European citizenship and connected rights are first presented. Chapter Two focuses on the legal uncertainty that afflicts second country nationals in the United Kingdom as well as British citizens, turning from expats to post-European third country nationals. Chapter Three describes the functionalist theory and delineates three ways in which it applies to Brexit. These three directions of inquiry are developed in the following chapters. Chapter Four focuses on the intension of Union citizenship: Which rights can be frozen? Chapter Five determines the extension of Union citizenship: Who gets to withdraw the status? The key finding is that while Member states are in principle free to revoke the status of Union citizen, former Member states are not unbounded in stripping Union citizens of their acquired territorial rights. Conclusions are drawn and policy-suggestions summed up in the final chapter.
Keywords
- Open Access
- functionalist theory of citizenship
- Citizenship of the Union
- free movement of people
- European nationality
- British nationality
- loss of citizenship
- rights of Europeans in Britain
- rights of British expats in Europe
- withdrawing citizenship after Brexit
- European law
- Public International Law
- status of European migrants after Brexit
- British withdrawal from the EU
- long-term impications of Brexit
- european union politics
- British Politics
- citizenship
Authors and Affiliations
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Philosophy Department, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Patricia Mindus
About the author
Patricia Mindus is Associate Professor of Practical Philosophy and Wallenberg Academy Research Fellow at Uppsala University, Sweden, where she directs the project CIVIS SUM on practices of rule of law and migration policy in the EU. She works on citizenship and migration law in the EU, with a political and legal theory perspective and is a leading expert on legal realism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Citizenship after Brexit
Book Subtitle: Freedom of Movement and Rights of Residence
Authors: Patricia Mindus
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51774-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51773-5Published: 12 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84737-5Published: 08 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51774-2Published: 04 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-5873
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 123
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Union Politics, British Politics, Citizenship, European Politics