Citizenship, Nationality and Access to Public Service Employment

Citizenship, Nationality and Access to Public Service Employment
Author: Jolanda Emmelien Beenen
Publisher: ISBS
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789076871042

The principle of free movement of workers within the European Union is of great importance to the functioning of the internal market. As a result, exceptions to the fundamental principles of the European Union are kept to a minimum and are interpreted narrowly. One of the exceptions to the free movement of workers is the so-called 'public service' exception, which is laid down in Article 39 (4) (ex Article 48 (4)) of the EC Treaty. The main object of this book is to analyse this exception, both at the European level and the national level. In the first part of the book the author analyses in detail, the case law of the European Court of Justice dealing with the correct interpretation of the public service exception. Attention is also paid to the concepts of nationality and (European) citizenship. National legislation dealing with nationality requirements for employment in the public service in the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom are explored in the second part of the book. The book also offers a more general comparison of nationality requirements as they can be found in a number of other EU Member States. About the author: Jolanda Emmelien (Nanda) Beenen (1969) was born in Emmen, the Netherlands. She graduated in fiscal economics (1993) and Dutch law (1994) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She received an LL.M. from Cambridge University, Lucy Cavendish College, in the United Kingdom (1995). From 1996 to 2000 she held an Ph.D. research assistant post at the Netherlands Institute for Social and Economic Law (NISER), now the G.J. Wiarda Institute of Utrecht University. Since 1 December 2000 she is employed as a lawyer at the legal department of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries.

The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship

The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship
Author: Ayelet Shachar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 816
Release: 2017-08-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0192528424

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance. The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship brings together leading experts in law, philosophy, political science, economics, sociology, and geography to provide a multidisciplinary, comparative discussion of different dimensions of citizenship: as legal status and political membership; as rights and obligations; as identity and belonging; as civic virtues and practices of engagement; and as a discourse of political and social equality or responsibility for a common good. The contributors engage with some of the oldest normative and substantive quandaries in the literature, dilemmas that have renewed salience in today's political climate. As well as setting an agenda for future theoretical and empirical explorations, this Handbook explores the state of citizenship today in an accessible and engaging manner that will appeal to a wide academic and non-academic audience. Chapters highlight variations in citizenship regimes practiced in different countries, from immigrant states to 'non-western' contexts, from settler societies to newly independent states, attentive to both migrants and those who never cross an international border. Topics include the 'selling' of citizenship, multilevel citizenship, in-between statuses, citizenship laws, post-colonial citizenship, the impact of technological change on citizenship, and other cutting-edge issues. This Handbook is the major reference work for those engaged with citizenship from a legal, political, and cultural perspective. Written by the most knowledgeable senior and emerging scholars in their fields, this comprehensive volume offers state-of-the-art analyses of the main challenges and prospects of citizenship in today's world of increased migration and globalization. Special emphasis is put on the question of whether inclusive and egalitarian citizenship can provide political legitimacy in a turbulent world of exploding social inequality and resurgent populism.

Free Movement of Persons Within the European Community

Free Movement of Persons Within the European Community
Author: Anne Pieter van der Mei
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2003-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1841132888

This book explores the extent to which European Community law confers upon individuals the right to gain access to public services in other Member States. Are European citizens and third country nationals who have moved to other Member States entitled to claim minimum subsistence benefits,to receive medical care or to be admitted to education? Does Community law provide for a freedom of movement for patients, students and persons in need of social welfare benefits? If so, to what extent does Community law have regard for the Member States' fears for, and concerns about, welfare tourism? Besides addressing numerous detailed questions on the precise degree to which Community law allows for cross-border access to public services, the author analyses how Community law, and the Court of Justice in particular, have sought to reconcile the Community's objectives of realising freedom of movement and ensuring equality of treatment with the need to develop and maintain adequate social services within the Community. In addition, the book contains a detailed analysis of United States constitutional law on cross-border access to public services, exploring the question whether the European Community can possibly learn from the American experience.

The Impact of European Rights on National Legal Cultures

The Impact of European Rights on National Legal Cultures
Author: Miriam Aziz
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1841133094

This book contributes to the debate about the impact of European Community Law on the national constitutional orders and cultures of the respective Member States. The author examines the doctrine of sovereignty as a mechanism within which this impact may be best assessed and in particular how it underwrites the tension between European Union rights and the rights provided by the respective legal orders of the Member States. In particular the book focuses on political,social and civil rights, drawing from T.H. Marshall's typology. In endorsing an appropriate analytical framework, the book challenges both existing law and secondary literature in order to argue that the terminology, the concepts and the tools which are used to assess the impact of the EC law on the national constitutional orders are to be selected with great care. This is particularly apposite given the complexity of constitutional diversity, in terms of national constitutions and their reception of EC law. It is also important because of the variety of approaches involved in the constitutional adjustment of the acquis of the Union within the context of the increasing drive to constitutionalisation of the Union on the one hand and enlargement on the other.

Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration

Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration
Author: T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2011-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0870033352

Many liberal democracies, facing high levels of immigration, are rethinking their citizenship policies. In this book, a group of international experts discuss various ways liberal states should fashion their policies to better accommodate newcomers. They offer detailed recommendations on issues of acquisition of citizenship, dual nationality, and the political, social, and economic rights of immigrants. Contributors include Patrick Weil (University of Paris Sorbonne), David A. Martin, (University of Virginia School of Law), Rainer Bauböck, (Austrian Academy of Sciences), and Michael Fix (Urban Institute).

The Future Governance of Citizenship

The Future Governance of Citizenship
Author: Dora Kostakopoulou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2008-05-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139472445

In much of the citizenship literature it is often considered, if not simply assumed, that citizenship is integral to the character of a self-determining community and that this process, by definition, involves the exclusion of resident 'foreigners'. Dora Kostakopoulou calls this assumption into question, arguing that 'aliens' are by definition outside the bounds of the community by virtue of a circular reasoning which takes for granted the existence of bounded national communities, and that this process of collective self-definition is deeply political and historically dated. Although national citizenship has enjoyed a privileged position in both theory and practice, its remarkable elasticity has reached its limit, thereby making it more important to find an alternative model. Kostakopoulou develops a new institutional framework for anational citizenship, which can be grafted onto the existing state system, defends it against objections and proposes institutional reform based on an innovative approach to citizenship.

Justice Contained

Justice Contained
Author: Lisa J. Conant
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1501722646

In this probing analysis of the European Union's transnational legal system, Lisa Conant explores the interaction between law and politics. In particular, she challenges the widely held view that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has, through bold judicial activism, brought about profound policy and institutional changes within the EU's member states. She argues convincingly that this court, like its domestic counterparts, depends on the support of powerful organized interests to gain compliance with its rulings. What, Conant asks, are the policy implications of the ECJ's decisions? How are its rulings applied in practice? Drawing on the rich scholarship on the U.S. Supreme Court, Conant depicts the limits that the ECJ and other tribunals have to face. To illuminate these constraints, she traces the impact of ECJ decisions in four instances concerning market competition and national discrimination. She also proposes ways of anticipating which of this court's legal interpretations are likely to inspire major reforms.Justice Contained closes with a comparative analysis of judicial power, identifying the ECJ as an institution with greater similarities to domestic courts than to international organizations. The book advances a deeper understanding both of the court's contributions to European integration and of the political economy of litigation and reform.

Offshore Citizens

Offshore Citizens
Author: Noora Lori
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108498175

This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status.

Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction

Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Richard Bellamy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2008-09-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0192802534

Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen in a modern, complex community? Richard Bellamy approaches the subject of citizenship from a political perspective and, in clear and accessible language, addresses the complexities behind this highly topical issue.