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Lightening of Citizenship and its Implication for Social Policy: 'Social Security Lite' in the Making?

Amiya-Nakada, Ryosuke. (2015) Lightening of Citizenship and its Implication for Social Policy: 'Social Security Lite' in the Making? [Conference Proceedings] (Unpublished)

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    Abstract

    This paper is an attempt to connect the internal and the external aspects in the transformation of citizenship, building on Christian Joppke's hypothesis on the 'lightening of citizenship'. Taking social policy developments in the EU as an example, the paper contends that lightening of citizenship entails universalization and lightening of social policy. It also highlights the leading role of the CJEU in this transformation. Substantially, we argue that universalisation and lightening of social security corresponds to functional requirement of the internal market and the increasingly diversified life career of its citizenry. In this regard, 'lightening' should be conceptually separated from mere 'retrenchment'. This direction has been augmented by the intervention of the ECJ, whose judgements has built on the Union Citizenship and enhanced individual social rights protection. Featuring citizenship as a universal status, however, individual rights can be protected, but collective ordering of social relations would take a back seat.

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    Item Type: Conference Proceedings
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > Third Pillar/JHA/PJCC/AFSJ > European citizenship
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > social policy > general
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
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    Conference: European Union Studies Association (EUSA) > Biennial Conference > 2015 (14th), March 4-7, 2015
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 18 Aug 2016 10:07
    Number of Pages: 23
    Last Modified: 04 Nov 2016 13:43
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/78861

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