Citizenship, Europe and Change [Paperback]

Citizenship, Europe and Change is about the implications of the evolution of the European Union and the emergence of European supra-citizenship for the people of Europe. It addresses the way in which these implications are crucially mediated by inequalities according to social class, age- generation, race-ethnicity and sex-gender. An analytical framework is presented in terms of which European society, processes and change are decisively shaped within a hierarchy of political communities and conflicts, and driven by fundamental societal contradictions. Attention is paid to conceptual and theoretical issues, and there is a critical examination of the impact of social policy, motivated by a commitment to European integration and supra-citizenship in so far as these things benefit the people of Europe, especially the disadvantaged and excluded.List of Tables - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Towards a Framework for analysing Modern European Citizenship - Citizenship, the State, the Nation State and Nationality - Citizenship, Migration, Asylum and Race- Ethnicity - Citizenship, Social Change and the Individual - Individualism, Citizenship and the European Union - Citizenship and the European Supra-State - Notes - Bibliography - Index