Overview

Highly topical and with an interdisciplinary focus, this book explores the recent political and social developments in EU citizenship. Bringing political scientists, sociologists and law scholars together, this book analyses the implications of identity categorisation regarding gender and generations in the EU and what this means for the realisation of citizens’' rights, particularly of women, young adults and migrant care workers throughout the EU. Established researchers explore the stories of social and civil rights in the EU, covering family mobility and migration issues, the precarious positions of female migrant workers across member states and the EU’s promotion of diverse family rights. Moreover, the book focuses on the prominent issues facing the new generation of young adults: particularly social mobility, civil rights and political parties’' differing views on gender and family issues. With insight into national and regional perspectives on these significant topics, the authors argue that the European Parliament is currently striving for a new consensus to unite member states and dissipate current divisions. An important read for academics and students from across the social sciences, specifically public and social policy, gender studies and European studies, interested in the future direction of the EU surrounding gender and generational division. Contributors include: G.M. Dotti Sani, J. Gal, T. Knijn, A. Krizsan, D. Lepianka, J. Long, M. Luppi, M. Naldini, R. Oomkens, L. Rolandsen Agustin, A. Santero, B. Siim, J. Sipic, D. Sirinic, C. Solera, L.J. van den Braken, M.A. Yerkes

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9781788113151

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'Knijn and Naldini's edited collection is a welcome addition to the vast area of citizenship studies that highlight many challenges to active EU citizenship participation and individual EU citizenship rights. It aims to highlight discrepancy within EU citizenship along the lines of gender, age and mobility. As such, the book situates itself within the work on gendered citizenship in welfare States that interrogates care policies as an aspect of gendered social rights.' -- Jule Mulder, Common Market Law Review (CML)

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Edited by Trudie Knijn, Emeritus Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and Manuela Naldini, Associate Professor of Sociology of the Family, and Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin, Italy

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