Citizenship at Europe's Borders: Some Reflections on the Post-colonial Condition of Europe in the Context of EU Enlargement

This article proposes a critical approach to European citizenship through the analysis the legal dispositives which define the external borders of Europe in the context of EU . It examines the deterritorialization of the EU’s external and internal borders through analysis of the immigration laws of Poland, Romania and Bulgaria which have all been recently in order to meet the requirements of the Schengen aquis. By comparing these legislative with the legal mechanisms of colonial systems, the article suggests that the material process the constitutionalization of EU citizenship highlights a post-colonial condition of the European .