Mobile Individualism: The Subjectivity of EU Citizenship
Within the manifold debates on EU law, several scholars have recently turned to examining the connection between law and subjectivity in the European context.1 This new debate focuses on the construction of the legal person in Union law, specifically within the purview of EU citizenship and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). What is at stake here is whether EU law promotes a certain type of person over another, whether it prefers a certain form of life. If so, what is that form of life which is granted exemplary status by EU law? Embarking on this line of questioning breaks with the more customary method of analysing EU citizenship, which discusses different constellations of rights and obligations, framing these under the umbrella terms of liberal, republican, or market citizenship and then subjecting these legal bundles of rights and duties to normative examination.2 The debate this article joins, on the other hand, has taken a more anthropological turn by investigating the subjectification exercised by EU law over its subjects.3 Formulating this idea in the ancient vocabulary, we could say that each type of ‘regime’ corresponds to a certain type