Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• demonstrate a familiarity with the most recent scholarship on European citizenship and in particular with the concepts of ‘acts of citizenship’ and ‘activist citizenship’

• explain why European citizenship is said to be ‘derivative’ citizenship

• discuss the limits around thinking of citizenship as a status, and of thinking of citizenship from the perspective of those who already hold it

• understand how citizenship can be seen differently by asking ‘how do people do citizenship?’ rather than ‘who is the citizen?’

• elaborate on the ways in which those who do not hold EU citizenship can act as a European citizen.