Family Reunification in the EU

Chiara Berneri is a lecturer of EU Law and Constitutional Law at BPP University.

• Introduction 1. Family Reunification at the Time of Bilateral Agreements and the Common Market 1. Introduction 2. Movement Rights of Workers and the Role of Italy: From Bilateral Agreements to the Treaty ofRome and the Common Market 3. Bilateral Agreements and Family Members’ Residence Rights 4. EEC Family Residence Rights Provisions and Approach Towards Third Country Nationals 5. Conclusions 2. Foreigners Become Enemies: The New Immigration Approach since the Oil Crisis of 1973 1. Introduction 2. The Stigmatisation of Foreigners 3. The Creation and Development of a Fortress Europe: How Foreigners Started to be Stigmatised by the EU 4. Conclusions 3. Family Reunification between EU Moving Citizens and Third Country National Family Members 1. Introduction 2. The Right of Residence of Third Country National EU Family Members 3. Other Conditions Inserted in the Early Free Movement Legislation to be Fulfilled by the EU Worker 4. Other Conditions Inserted in the More Recent Legislation 5. Conclusions 4. EU Static Citizens Law Cases 1. Introduction 2. The Development of the Concept of EU Citizenship 3. The Final Detachment of the Concept of EU Citizenship from the Right of Free Movement: Zambrano 4. The First Zambrano Curtailment: McCarthy 5. The Completion of the Zambrano Curtailment through the Specification of the Substance of Rights test: Dereci 6. The Post-Dereci Cases: A Confi rmation of the Strict Approach of the Court on Third Country NationalFamily Residence Rights 7. Conclusions 5. Conclusion

This comprehensive, well-researched, highly informative and well-written monograph makes a valuable and timely contribution to the topic of family reunification between EU citizens and third-country nationals.