Freedom of Movement in the EU

Christiane Heimann provides insights on how the economic and political situation in Spain, Germany and the UK affects the institutional implementation of free labour movement and how mobile EU citizens navigate the institutional policies strategically. The study examines different profiles of EU citizens exercising free labour movement and shows ways of EU labour recruitment and transnational labour integration taking into account the institutional implementation of related EU policies. Intra-Community mobility policies and practices will be assessed in terms of their effectiveness for international recruitment and labour integration. Contents EU Polity and harmonisation Right places for intra-EU mobility Creating the right circumstances in Spain, Germany, and UK Right people: myth, motives, profiles and chances Target Groups Lecturers and students of social sciences, sociology, political science, economics, human resources management, social work and business education Politicians and practitioners dealing with migration and integration, international recruiters, personnel consultants and human resource managers interested in intra-EU migration policies and practices The Author Christiane Heimann completed her PhD at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS). She has conducted research and taught at the Universities in Germany, the UK, the US and Spain. Besides, she has worked in business and policy consultancy in Germany, Spain and at EU-level.

More than 30 years after its birth, the Schengen area of free movement is under siege in Europe: new barriers are being erected along land borders, military assets are increasingly deployed to patrol the Mediterranean, while sophisticated surveillance tools are used to keep track of the flows of people crossing into European space. Bringing together perspectives from political geography, critical criminology and legal theory, Policing Mobility Regimes offers a systematic analysis of the impact that Frontex is having on migration control strategies at the EU level and offers a detailed empirical description of the agency's organization and operational activities. In addition, this book explores the meaning behind the attempt at developing a post-national border control strategy and what effect this might have on the geopolitics of Europe's borders. It contributes to the wider theoretical debate on the relationships among migration, security and the transformation of borders in contemporary Europe. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to all those engaged with criminology, sociology, geography, politics and law as well as all those interested in learning about Europe's changing borders.

This book addresses the hidden dynamics of race within the European Union. Brexit supporters’ frequent targeting of European Union (EU) movers, especially those from Central and Eastern Europe, has been popularly assumed as at odds with the EU project’s foundations based on equality and inclusion. This book dispels that notion. By interrogating the history, wording, omissions, assumptions and applications of laws, policies and discourses pertinent to mobility and equality, the argument developed throughout the book is that the parameters of CEE nationals’ status within the EU have been closely circumscribed, in line with the entrenched historical positioning of the west as superior to the east. Engaging current legal, economic, political and moral issues--against the backdrop of Brexit and contestations over EU integration and globalisation--this work opens avenues of thought to better understand law’s role in producing and sustaining social stratifications. Europe is a postcolonial space, as this book demonstrates. By addressing fractures within the construct of whiteness that are based on ethnicity, class and migrant status, the book also provides a theoretically nuanced, and politically useful, understanding of contemporary European racisms.

Can it be argued that there exists a concept of Nordic citizenship, founded on inter-Nordic cooperation and its relationship with EU law and EEA law? Researchers from all five Nordic States (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) explore the tensions, gaps, and overlaps arising from the interplay of EU citizenship, EEA law, and the Nordic initiatives that aim to facilitate cross-border mobility of persons in the region. The analysis takes a dual approach. Firstly, it tracks the legal development of nationality law in Nordic states. Secondly, it sets out the rights of residence and access to social rights that follow from the three different regimes. It asks if the Nordic States, through their regional cooperation, are 'going beyond' EU free movement law, making naturalisation to a citizenship in a Nordic state particularly attractive. This important new work gives a unique perspective on EU citizenship and free movement law.

How 'free' is the free movement of persons? Why does the law that enables it need to be 'revisited'? This collection of essays, curated by Claire Kilpatrick and Joanne Scott for the European University Institute's 2020 Academy of European Law, addresses these questions. Across different examples - migration, posted workers, social security, Brexit, and Union citizenship - each chapter revisits the categories that have become entrenched in EU law on the free movement of persons and the boundaries that have been constructed as a result. Do they still represent meaningful differences? Are they valuable compass points or inhibitors of progress? Do they ensure comprehensive or fragmented protection of the person? In reconsidering the fundamentals of EU free movement law, the book draws attention to tensions that have not yet been properly resolved: between appropriate difference and problematic discrimination, or between the mythology and the experienced reality of free movement for the people who actually move. Its chapters consider how the free movement of persons connects to and is shaped by the EU legal spaces beyond free movement as well as by the space beyond law. The contributors do not shy away from provoking a rethink of core principles. They interrogate these fundamentals and the changing objectives of the free movement of persons to take up the challenge of doing it better: of making it both more protective of people and more resilient in ethical, systemic, and sociological terms.

This book is about home and international law. More specifically, it is about the profound, and frequently devastating, transformations of home that are happening almost everywhere in the world today, and what international law has to do with them. Through three stories of home - the desert home, the lake home, and the city home - this book traces how the everyday operations of international law shape the material, affective and imaginative experience of home. It argues that international law's 'homemaking work' is characterised by acts of domination, practices of resistance and the production of unhomely space. However, the book also considers whether and how the liberatory potential of international law could be unlocked through the metaphor of home. This book draws from fieldwork conducted by the author in Cambodia, Palestine and the United Kingdom. It takes a global socio-legal approach to home and international law, informed by feminist political theory, feminist geography, home studies and contemporary critical approaches to international law. It is the first academic work to examine the relationship between home and international law. This book's global socio-legal approach to international law and home will be of interest to those teaching and studying in international law, socio-legal studies, legal pluralism and legal geography.

This book assesses the balancing act between EU free movement law, fundamental EU objectives and Member States' concerns regarding their welfare systems. It takes a novel dual approach: namely combining doctrinal analysis of EU citizenship case law with an examination of mobility data. This allows the study to clearly show an imbalance between the representation and protection of these conflicting interests in EU case law. It goes further, identifying avenues for reform and highlighting the importance of the principle of proportionality for attaining a legitimate balance of interests. In a field in which much has been written, this offers a truly original perspective. It will be much welcomed by scholars of EU free movement and citizenship law.

La Libre Circulación de Trabajadores es una realidad, desde hace tiempo, en el terreno de la movilidad laboral europea, debido en buena parte a las dificultades existentes en los distintos sistemas productivos nacionales para la creación de empleo. Se entiende, en consecuencia, que la doctrina haya vuelto los ojos hacia este fenómeno, que plantea importantes retos de política normativa y de instrumentación técnico-jurídica. La obra que se introduce aspira a inscribirse en esta línea de investigación y propone una revisión del marco normativo e institucional de la libre circulación de trabajadores en la Unión Europea, a cuya tutela jurídico-social se le concede su espacio protagónico natural. Desde un doble enfoque técnico-jurídico y político-jurídico, se destinan veintitrés capítulos al análisis de la dimensión y naturaleza del fenómeno incidiendo en sus causas y mecanismos de protección. Este trabajo colectivo ofrece, pues, un tratamiento riguroso y exhaustivo de la protección jurídico-social de los trabajadores que deciden ejercer el derecho a la libre circulación, resaltando las virtudes y disfunciones del modelo, sin dejar de aportar claves relevantes para articular propuestas de mejora. Y ello sobre la base de que esta vertiente de la libre circulación de personas no ha tenido el éxito esperado como instrumento equilibrador de los mercados de trabajo. Sobre la base de un estudio propositivo, se plantean distintas opciones para la reordenación normativa actualizada de tutela jurídico-social de las personas que protagonizan esta modalidad de movilidad laboral europea.