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PALGRAVE STUDIES IN EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS E...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This Open Access book investigates European
citizenship after Brexit  in light of the functionalist theory of citizenship. No matter its
shape  Brexit will impact significantly on what has been labelled as one of the major
achievements of EU integration: Citizenship of the Union. For the first time an automatic and
collective lapse of status is observed. It is a form of involuntary loss of citizenship en
masse  imposed by the automatic workings of the law on EU citizens of exclusively British
nationality. It does not however create statelessness and it is likely to be tolerated under
international law. This loss of citizenship is connected to a reduction of rights  affecting
not solely the former Union citizens but also second country nationals in the United Kingdom
and their family members. The status of European citizenship and connected rights are first
presented. Chapter Two focuses on the legal uncertainty that afflicts second country nationals
in the United Kingdom as well as British citizens  turning from expats to post-European third
country nationals. Chapter Three describes the functionalist theory and delineates three ways
in which it applies to Brexit. These three directions of inquiry are developed in the following
chapters. Chapter Four focuses on the intension of Union citizenship: Which rights can be
frozen? Chapter Five determines the extension of Union citizenship: Who gets to withdraw the
status? The key finding is that while Member states are in principle free to revoke the status
of Union citizen  former Member states are not unbounded in stripping Union citizens of their
acquired territorial rights. Conclusions are drawn and policy-suggestions summed up in the
final chapter.

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