Claiming Citizenship Rights in Europe: Emerging Challenges and Political Agents

In search of European Citizenship; 1. Introduction: Claiming Citizenship Rights in Europe [Ali Emre Benli and Daniele Archibugi; 2. European Citizenship in Times of Crisis: What is Left? [Teresa Pullano; PART I. The Refugees Challenge to European Citizenship; 3. Addressing the Refugee Crisis by European Citizenship [Marco Cellini; 4. Refugees Traversing Borders: Disobedience as an Act of European Citizenship [Ali Emre Benli; 5. European Asylum Policy and Sexual Orientation [Ilaria Ricci; PART II. European Citizens at the Fringe 6. Prisoner Voting Rights on a European Perspective: The Cases of McHugh & Others v. The United Kingdom and Thierry Delvigne v. Commune de Lesparre Médoc [Viola Scordia; 7. Who Votes and Who Can be Voted in the European Parliament Elections? [Ilaria Ricci; 8. Estonia's Non-Citizens, Citizens of the European Union? [Gigi Mihaita; 9.Sterilisation without Informed Consent: How to Improve European Citizens' Medical Agency [Olga Lenczewska] ; 10. Parallel Claims for the Human Right to Water: The Case of Roma in Slovenia [Marek Szilvasi; PART III. Emerging Issues and Political Subjects ; 11. The "Right to be Forgotten": Asserting Control over our Digital Identity or Re-writing History? [Alice Pease; 12. A Right to Protection for Whistleblowers [Daniele Santoro and Manohar Kumar; 13. The Right to Become Visible: A Case for Aesthetic Activism on the EU Level [Daniel Tkatch; Epilogue 14. Claiming Rights to Rejuvenate European Integration [Daniele Archibugi and Ali Emre Benli

This 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. It suggests that the expansion of human rights might be a viable strategy to generate a proper European citizenship.