Saila Heinikoski is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the co-author, along with Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark and Pirjo Kleemola-Juntunen, of Demilitarization and International Law in Context (2018).
Integral to the European Union project has been the idea of free movement across national borders, but its implementation raises multiple questions about competing rationales, goals, and notions of solidarity. Saila Heinikoski helps us make sense of all this in her insightful analysis of elite debates over time. At this fraught moment in the history of that project, this is essential reading. * Peter Kivisto, Professor of Sociology, Augustana College, USA * This book provides a fascinating and thoroughly researched analysis of discourse surrounding free movement in six major European countries and the European Commission, with implications for ideas of European identity and citizenship. Heinikoski demonstrates that while various migration-related tensions divide European countries, free movement may create a common sense of Europeanness. * Willem Maas, Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, York University, Canada *