Migranternas medborgarskap
EU:s medborgarskapande från Romförhandlingarna till idag av
Meriam Chatty
Akademisk avhandling
Avhandling för filosofie doktorsexamen i statskunskap, som kommer att försvaras offentligt
fredag den 27 februari 2015 kl. 13.15, Prismahuset HSP1, Örebro universitet
Opponent: Professor Gregor Noll Juridiska fakulteten
Lunds universitet
Örebro universitet
Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap
Abstract
Meriam Chatty (2015): A Citizenship for the Migrants: EU Citizenship Making from the Rome Treaty Negotiations to the Present. Örebro Studies in Political Science 40.
Freedom of movement, the bedrock of EU citizenship, has been seriously challenged in the last decade. Although the citizenship directive was adopted in 2004, numerous contrary developments have also taken place, such as the transition rules for new EU citizens, mass expulsions of Roma EU citizens, as well as a growing debate in which EU citizens are depicted as “social tourists” and “EU migrants”. In order to under-stand how the present development could unfold, this thesis focuses on the external dimension of citizenship and studies historically the making of EU citizens as a form of politics of mobility, as a regulation and cate-gorization of human mobility.
The separation between freedom of movement and migration, on one side, and the dynamic between free movement and security, on the other, are put forward as central in the process of EU citizenship making. Here, the thesis circumstantiates the importance of considering the impact of colonial migration and security regimes on the early development of free movement in the Rome Treaty. It shows how the inclusion of the coloni-al history of the EU chcoloni-allenges current research on EU citizenship and migration. Most importantly, the thesis disputes the prevalent concep-tion that the Schengen process in the 1980s constitutes the starting point of the EU’s securitization of the nexus of free movement and migration.
By showing how the EU, since the Rome Treaty, has created a legal-political regime based on citizenship stratification, on the one hand, and differentiation between citizens and other categories of subjects, on the other, the thesis problematizes how the EU citizen and its alterity (i.e. the migrant) constitute each other.
Keywords: EU citizenship, colonialism, freedom of movement, migration, security, nationality
Meriam Chatty, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap. Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden, meriam.chatty@oru.se
