I’m a professor of European Constitutional Law and Citizenship at Groningen, who has consulted governments and international institutions from Malta and the Netherlands to the European Parliament, and acted as an expert in one of the Chagos Archipellago saga cases. While my focus is on EU citizenship and immigration law, I’ve held guest research and teaching appointments everywhere from the U.S. (Princeton, NYU Law School), Switzerland (Basel), and Italy (Turin and Rome), to Japan (Osaka) and the Philippines.
I’m about to publish
a book with the MIT Press that explores the state of citizenship across the modern world, shedding light on its ‘dark side’ and looking past the popular clichés that surround the concept. The story of citizenship, after all, is one not of liberation and dignity but of complacency, hypocrisy, and violence of glorified random subjugation.
Do you have questions about citizenship? About what it entails and how it came to be? About its sexist, racist, and colonial underpinnings? About the function it serves in the 21st century and the role it might play in the near future? I’m here from 12:00 until 14:00 — ask me anything!
