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Abstract
In light of the EU enlargements and a promise of unrestricted mobility within EU borders for European nationals, the opportunity was rapidly taken up in particular by young and highly educated Poles. However, some aspirant migrants wished to travel beyond EU borders and such individuals sought different strategies to migrate, including obtaining British citizenship and passports. The paper highlights the possibility of a go-stop-go mobility, which can be described as a stepped approach to citizenship, and a key feature of the new elite cohort of young European graduates, who use their European citizenship to obtain an alternative citizenship that acts as a passport literally and metaphorically to mobility beyond Europe.
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank Dr Elizabeth Mavroudi and Professor Darren Smith for their dedication in supervising my doctoral research and support in writing of this paper. I would like to show my gratitude to Dr Avril Maddrell and Dr Marco Antonsich for their invaluable comments, which helped me to shape the final draft of this paper. Finally, I would like to show my appreciation towards anonymous reviewers and the editor of this journal for their advice on revising of the earlier draft of this paper.
Notes
1. Old Member States of the EU include six core states that established the EU and further 11 countries that joined the EU since and before 2004.
2. A8 stands for accession eight countries that joined EU in 2004. These include Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia; A2 stands for accession two countries that became Members of the EU in 2007 that is Bulgaria and Romania.
3. The UK in/out the EU referendum 2017 is promised by David Cameron’s referendum if Conservatives win the next general elections in 2015.