Description
The connection between immigration and citizenship in Europe is an increasingly important issue. This timely and informative book investigates three main aspects of the issue: the degree to which European citizenship encourages the development of a European identity; the impact of European citizenship at the nation-state level in Italy and the UK in regard to domestic policy-making in the areas of immigration and citizenship; and what is needed to make a supranational citizenship work in practice. Fiorella Dell'Olio examines changes in laws on citizenship, nationality, and immigration in Italy and the UK, and assesses the relationship between the political conceptualization of European citizenship and the public response as revealed by opinion polls. She argues that the establishment of a European citizenship has reinforced the ideology of nationality in both Italy and the UK and that it consequently has failed to forge a European identity.
Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction; Theories, concepts and definitions; Community models; Redefining nationality and immigration policies: the United Kingdom and Italy; Forms and functions of the European citizenship; The Europeanization of citizenship: controversial issues; Public attitudes, values-mobilisation and identification; Supra-national undertakings and the determination of social rights in the EU; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
