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People and Social Groups in the European Union

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Research Methods in European Union Studies

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This chapter surveys how researchers have studied the relationship between the EU and the people identified as its citizens. The passports held by the citizens of EU member-states carry the statement that they are ‘EU citizens’. This is a legal statement and has material consequences for the individual possessing such a document. Yet, does EU citizenship mean that there is a ‘people’ of the EU in the sense that we speak of the ‘French people’ or ‘German people’, with all the historical and cultural baggage those labels incur?

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  1. Department of Society and Globalisation, University of Roskilde, Denmark

    Kennet Lynggaard (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  2. Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Ian Manners (Professor) (Professor)

  3. School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    Karl Löfgren (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Strange, M. (2015). People and Social Groups in the European Union. In: Lynggaard, K., Manners, I., Löfgren, K. (eds) Research Methods in European Union Studies. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316967_5

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