Rethinking EU Citizenship: Towards the Postmodern Ethics of Citizenship
The concept of EU citizenship reflects EU politics of (fixed) identity, which guarantees rights only to the homogenous groups (and individuals as representatives of these groups). Hence, it leaves room for marginalizing, othering, excluding and other forms of discrimination, by creating binary op...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Oradea, Research Centre on Identity and Migration Studies-RCIMI
2009-11-01
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| Series: | Journal of Identity and Migration Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://e-migration.ro/jims/Vol3_no2_2009/IVIC_JIMS_Vol3_No2_2009.pdf |
| Summary: | The concept of EU citizenship reflects EU politics of (fixed) identity, which
guarantees rights only to the homogenous groups (and individuals as representatives of
these groups). Hence, it leaves room for marginalizing, othering, excluding and other forms
of discrimination, by creating binary oppositions: we/they, citizen/alien, EU/non-EU and so
forth. EU citizenship is based on the modernist ethics of priority of right over the good. It is
created to promote European idea, so it has only instrumental value. On the other hand,
the politics of affinity leads to the substantive EU citizenship founded on multiple identities.
The politics of affinity requires a new ethics which will lead to transformation of the main
concepts of EU legal discourse. |
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| ISSN: | 1843-5610 1843-5610 |