Claiming Citizenship Rights in Europe - 9780367888961

Taylor & Francis

Claiming Citizenship Rights in EuropeEmerging Challenges and Political Agents\nAuthor(s): Daniele Archibugi, Ali Emre Benli\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367888961, 978-0367888961\nSynopsis\nWhile the European integration project is facing new challenges, abandonments and criticism, it is often forgotten that there are powerful legal instruments that allow citizens to protect and extend their rights. These instruments and the actions taken to activate them are often overlooked and deliberately ignored in the mainstream debates.\n\nThis book presents a selection of cases in which legal institutions, social movements, avant-gardes and minorities have tried, and often succeeded, to enhance the current state of human rights through traditional as well as innovative actions. The chapters of this book investigate some of the cases in which the gap between the conventionally recognized rights and those advocated is .