Acts of European Citizenship: From a Politics of Integration to a Politics of Mobility.

European citizenship is marked by a tension: between a citizenship that is derivative of the nation-state, and a citizenship that is defined by free movement. Taking the tension between nationality and free movement as symptomatic of a more deep-rooted contradiction between integration and mobility, this article reads mobility both as a social practice and as a political act. In so doing, it develops an account of European citizenship that focuses on the acts through which it is created. Specifically, it shows how mobile sex workers create European citizenship through the spatial and institutional mobilization of mobility. By developing an alternative account of European citizenship through a political sociology of mobility, the article challenges territorial or culturalist approaches, which render the acts of mobile political actors invisible. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]