Dall'Europa alle città. Cittadinanza globalizzata a confini variabili

Abstract

The meanings and the practices of citizenship are changing owing to globalization processes and the birth of supranational political and economic organizations, such as the European Union. The political supranational, national and sub-national institutions define – through distinctions, separations and segmentations of rights – the recognition of citizenship rights. This article proposes some results concerning a broad research carried out on the cultural and social processes inherent in the construction of European citizenship. In particular, the paper focuses on the freedom of movement definition in order to grasp the processes of European citizenship construction, because it structures both the inclusion patterns and the borders of citizenship. The paper is based on the analysis of discourses of three different kinds of text: an European directive, two oral communication at the Italian Parliament and a municipal bylaw. The analysis will show the variations of the dominant discourse on free movement and the cultural construction of two ideal types of internal migrants through citizenship segmentation based on work and income.