EU CITIZENSHIP AND IDENTITY
EU CITIZENSHIP AND IDENTITY

Summary/Abstract: Is there a possibility to harmonize the EU policy concerning migration since many people feel threatened in their most prized personal security, their national and European identity? Most probably not for the moment. Is it possible to mitigate the general anxiety so that European peoples can build confidence over time concerning newcomers? Some believe it is possible. One way would be a strong political will to enforce jus soli over jus sanguini, in several stages. As a first stage, we may consider a precursory statute to citizenship, a temporary and conditional one, to whom we should gradually attach rights depending on individual merits achieved in time and which may eventually lead to obtaining the full citizenship statute. Through the agency of this statute, we can build a legitimate framework for gradual integration, based on clear norms and criteria, allowing the migrant to gain access to fundamental rights. Whether such frame protects the migrant from institutional violence or not depends on how he or she is finally perceived by the local community. Before that, we should discuss the migrant’s statute as well as the right to settle in EU, achieve rights and obligations in direct ratio with his new statute. The aim of this article is to identify how social identity is formed for the new migrants by reference to their ethnical roots and identity markers of the host nation from EU, while its purpose is to propose a way to convert this newly acquired identity into a limited and conditional citizenship.

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