Citizenship, Nation-building and Identity in the EU
With Brexit looming, a major issue facing UK Higher Education is whether the UK will be able to stay in the Erasmus Programme. This book sits at the intersection of three main interrelated themes EU citizenship, the current state of the university in Europe and student mobility as they play out in the context of an EU-funded programme established not least to promote European identity, European consciousness and European citizenship.
Exploring through interviews with students from many countries, this book weaves together the themes of citizenship creation as a device for building a nation and a polity, the university as a public space in the era of the marketization of higher education and communicative interaction as the mechanism by which citizenship is created. Ultimately it asks if the building bricks of national citizenship can be transposed to the transnational scale and assist in creating the transnational, EU citizenship. It finds, surprisingly, that far from encouraging and facilitating the communicative interaction on which the development of EU citizenship was postulated, central features of the Erasmus Programme inadvertently work against this outcome.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU law and European and EU studies, citizenship studies and sociology, and more broadly to higher education in general.
Cherry James is Senior Lecturer in Law at London South Bank University.
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Citizenship, Nation-building and Identity in the EU
The Contribution of Erasmus Student Mobility
Cherry James
Citizenship, Nation-building and Identity in the EU
The Contribution of Erasmus Student Mobility
Cherry James
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Contents
Legislation
European Union
Decisions
Council Decision 87/327/EEC adopting the European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (Erasmus), OJ L 166, 25/6/87
Decision 1720/2006/EC of the European Parliament and the Council establishing an action programme in the field of lifelong learning, OJ L 237, 24/11/06
Directives
Council Directive 90/366/EEC on the right of residence for students, OJ L 180, 13/7/90
Council Directive 93/96/EEC on the right of residence for students, OJ L317, 18/12/93
Council Directive 93/109/EC on the right to vote and stand in European elections, OJ L329, 31/12/93
Council Directive 94/80/EC on the right to vote and stand in local elections, OJ L 368, 31/12/94
Council Directive 2003/109/EC concerning the status of third country nationals who are long-term residents, OJ L 16, 23/1/03
Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States, OJ L158, 30/4/04
Regulations
EEC Council Regulation 1/58 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community and also the European Community for Nuclear Energy, OJ 017, 6/10/58
Regulation (EEC) of the Council No 1612/68 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community, OJ L 257, 19/10/68
Regulation (EU) of the European Parliament and the Council No 1288/2013 establishing Erasmus +, OJ L 347, 20/12/13
Resolutions
Resolution of the Ministers of Education meeting within the Council of 6 June 1974, on cooperation in the field of education, OJ C 098, 20/08/1974
Resolution of the Council and of the Ministers of Education meeting within the Council of 9 February 1976, comprising an action programme in the field of education, OJ C 38, 19/2/76
Resolution of the Council and the Ministers of Education meeting within the Council on the European dimension in education of 24 May 1988, OJ C 177, 6/7/88
Resolution on obstacles to and discrimination against EU citizens participating in the European elections, OJ C 128/317, 21/4/94
Resolution of 21 November 2008 on a European strategy for multilingualism, OJ 2008/C320/01
Treaties
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
Constitutional Treaty
EC Treaty
Euratom Treaty
Lisbon Treaty
Maastricht Treaty
