MOBILE – Mobility Law Open Lab with Christian Prener

Citizenship and Transnational Mobility: Exploring the Nature of the Nexus

Guest presenter: Christian Prener is Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark and currently Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute (2023-2025). Prener’s research focuses broadly on the intersection of international law, citizenship and human mobility. He is a former Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Danish Institute for Human Rights, and iCourts, University of Copenhagen, and he received his PhD in law from the University of Aarhus

Presentation: Whenever a person intends to cross a border, nationality status defines, to a very large extent, whether or not that person can enter the territory of another state. Yet despite its pervasive influence, the precise mechanisms through which citizenship shapes transnational mobility remain ambiguous. This article explores the pivotal role of citizenship in determining a person’s access to transnational mobility, and traces how nationality laws serve as both a medium and outcome of the intricate assemblage of legal regimes that pertain to human mobility. Ultimately, the article presents a novel theoretical approach to citizenship, arguing for its characterisation as a form of ‘mobility capital’: a resource with which individuals are more or less endowed, which impacts people’s transnational social positions and their capacities, strategies and perceptions of transnational movement.

Time: 1 February 2024 13:00-14:15

Place: MOBILE – 6B-2-22 Southern Campus + ONLINE

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