" This is a superb piece of scholarship. Joppke manages to cover an extraordinary range of
theoretical questions and empirical findings within a very compact and readable book. He …

The Brexit and Trump shocks of 2016 mark a deep caesura in the history of liberal societies.
It is no longer sufficient, if it ever was, to look at Western states' immigration and citizenship …

Instrumentalism, I argued earlier [Joppke, Christian. 2010a.“The Inevitable Lightening of
Citizenship.” European Journal of Sociology 51 (1): 9–32.], is the heart of an 'inevitable …

Despite nearly sixty years of European integration, neither nations nor national loyalties
have withered away. On the contrary, national identity rhetoric seems on the rise, not only in …

This paper scrutinizes the paradox of the increasing objective yet diminishing subjective
value of citizenship in Western states. The decreasing subjective value points to an …

The citizenship of the European Union is a rare example of a" fundamental status" which is
entirely dependent on the specific, features of the bearer, instead of vice versa, making any …

This article stresses the need to study how European Union (EU) member states define and
implement the concept of habitual residence to assess boundaries of welfare in the EU. It …

This Article provides an analysis of the dawning of a new phase in the development of the
European Union (" EU"). The EU is currently involved in a fundamental reinterpretation of the …

The European architecture for the protection of fundamental rights combines the legal
regimes of the states, the European Union, and the European Convention on Human Rights …

This article scrutinizes the last ten years of the academic debate on EU citizenship law
taking nine fundamental disagreements among scholars as starting points. It explores EU …