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Senior Citizenship?
Ackers, Louise; Dwyer, Peter
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Description for Senior Citizenship?
Paperback. Debates about citizenship in Europe are increasingly topical as the EU expands. This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for retired people moving or returning home under the Free Movement of Persons provisions. It raises important issues around the future of social citizenship in an increasingly global and mobile world. Num Pages: 232 pages, 3figs.9tabs. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JFSP31; JKS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 369.
This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for those citizens exercising their right to move or return home on retirement under the Free Movement of Persons provisions and explores their experiences of international mobility. It is set within the context of 'Citizenship of the Union'. Senior citizenship? draws on substantial primary research material to: combine detailed analysis of the framework of EU rights shaping social with in-depth qualitative interviews involving retired migrants across six member states (Greece, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ireland); describe and evaluate an innovative approach to comparative enquiry that ... Read more
This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for those citizens exercising their right to move or return home on retirement under the Free Movement of Persons provisions and explores their experiences of international mobility. It is set within the context of 'Citizenship of the Union'. Senior citizenship? draws on substantial primary research material to: combine detailed analysis of the framework of EU rights shaping social with in-depth qualitative interviews involving retired migrants across six member states (Greece, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ireland); describe and evaluate an innovative approach to comparative enquiry that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861342645
SKU
V9781861342645
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99-15
About Ackers, Louise; Dwyer, Peter
Louise Ackers is Jean Monnet Professor in European Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of Law in Europe at the University of Leeds. She has directed a number of projects concerned with the legal aspects of mobility within the EU, citizenship and comparative social policy. Peter Dwyer is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the Department ... Read more
Reviews for Senior Citizenship?
"... very rewarding ... should be read for the strong sense of dynamic it generates in recounting the aspirations, efforts and strategies of many older Europeans who can claim only a very liminal form of citizenship." Critical Social Policy "Louise Ackers and Peter Dwyer have exceptional insights into the evolution of European citizenship, particularly as it bears on the welfare ... Read more