Research on the EU Citizenship and Transnational parliamentarians

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24730438
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Toyo University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI Noriko 東洋大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (50610151)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: EU市民権 / EU研究 / フランス / 移民問題 / 市民意識

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The objective of this research was to clarify how Europen(EU) citizens would exercise the EU Citizenship in the country of their residence but not of their nationality. The study looked at results of the elections of EU Parliament and analyzed whether the number of EU citizens participating in the elections have been increasing and among them how the ones who were elected as the EU parliamentarians consider themselves (i.e., the citizen of their nationality, of their residence or more transnational characters).
We focused on the results of the EP and local elections in France and identified that the number of non-French EU citizens participating in the elections have been increasing. Moreover, through the interviews and questionnaire surveys, we revealed that they possess their identity as European; however, their political consciousness seem to be more rooted in the local community where they have migrated in France rather than the ones at the level of Europe as a whole.

Free Research Field

政治社会学