CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Gottschalk, Jana |
|---|---|
| Title | EU citizenship regime, labor mobility and unfilled promises: practices from an enlarged EU |
| Summary | This thesis deals with EU citizenship and the increased migration into EU-15 labor markets after the Eastern enlargements in 2004 and 2007. Using the “citizenship regime” concept by Jenson (2007), it is argued that current EU citizenship policies enhance and perpetuate social inequalities between citizens from the old and new member states when migrating for labor. As such, EU citizenship policies and associated legislations play a crucial role in stratifying the European society into “model citizens”, “secondary citizens” and “non-citizens”. The argument builds around an analysis of institutional and practical legacies under socialism and capitalism, which define the connection of work and (social) citizenship in very different terms and consequently have different effects on labor migrants’ statuses when exercising their freedom of movement, the most important of the EU citizenship rights. This finding will be supported by giving empirical evidence from EU citizenship provisions and analyzing quantitative data on the post-2004 East-West migration flows. Explanations for the remarkable mismatch in individual high qualification and low skill work performed usually concentrate on exclusionary mechanisms displayed through insufficient language knowledge, the under-supply of appropriate job posts in the destination countries or migrants’ individual rationale in accepting low skill and low wage employment. However, by conceptualizing the EU citizenship regime as prototypical neoliberal and by introducing the notions “European orientalism” and “post-socialist citizenship” to the discussion, a different explanation will be offered. |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi, Szabolcs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/gottschalk_jana.pdf |
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