EU Citizens’ Access to Social Benefits: Reality or Fiction? Outlining a Law and Literature Approach to EU citizenship

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Abstract

This chapter follows a ‘Law and Literature’ approach towards EU citizens’ access to social benefits. The author demonstrates that law is not just a set of rules or institutions, but a dialogical and literary activity, which can be analysed and criticized as such. This approach is applied with regard to landmark judgments on EU citizenship such as the Grzelczyk and the Dano cases. The author argues how a ‘Law and Literature’ approach to EU citizenship contributes to understanding and critically assessing the way in which legal narratives shape EU citizenship rights.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEU Citizenship and Social Rights
Subtitle of host publicationEntitlements and Impediments to Accessing Welfare
EditorsFrans Pennings, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
Place of PublicationCheltenham
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing
Chapter10
Pages199-227
Number of pages28
ISBN (Electronic)9781788112710
ISBN (Print)9781788112703
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Mar 2018

Publication series

NameInterdisciplinary Perspectives on EU Citizenship
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing

Keywords

  • EU citizenship
  • law and literature
  • hermeneutics

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