Citizenship, Nation-building and Identity in the EU: The Contribution of Erasmus Student Mobility (Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies) - Hardcover

James, Cherry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138479748 ISBN 13: 9781138479746

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

With Brexit looming, a major issue facing UK Higher Education is whether the UK will be able to stay in the Erasmus Programme. This book sits at the intersection of three main interrelated themes - EU citizenship, the current state of the university in Europe, and student mobility - as they play out in the context of an EU funded programme established not least to promote European identity, European consciousness and European citizenship.

Exploring through interviews with students from many countries, this book weaves together the themes of citizenship creation as a device for building a nation and a polity, the university as a public space in the era of the marketization of higher education, and communicative interaction as the mechanism by which citizenship is created. Ultimately it asks if the building bricks of national citizenship can be transposed to the transnational scale, and assist in creating the transnational, EU citizenship. It finds, surprisingly, that far from encouraging and facilitating the communicative interaction on which the development of EU citizenship was postulated, central features of the Erasmus Programme inadvertently work against this outcome.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU law and European and EU studies, Citizenship Studies, sociology, and more broadly to higher education in general.

About this title

About the Author

Cherry James is Senior Lecturer in Law at London South Bank University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138479748
• ISBN 13: 9781138479746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216