ÉMIGRÉ – European Emigration Governance

The project critically engaged with the concept of European identity and citizenship, and the role of the European Union in diaspora, membership and emigration policies. It questioned whether there can be a European diaspora outside the European Union, if European governance of emigration is possible, and whether the EU can or should govern its diasporas in the global era.

Throughout the Project duration, a unique qualitative dataset on European governance of emigration and citizenship, as well as on the European integration in a global context, has been created. The results point towards the weak meaning of Europe for EU nationals living abroad. Moreover, European public spaces, present and sustained within the European Union territory, are largely not exported outside of it. Equal treatment and equal rights become empty concepts for Europeans leaving the European Union as they lose their European citizenship, reverting to national ones.