Maas, Willem Cluster Member

Current position(s), Institution
Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, York University. Department of Political Science
Fields of expertise
• theoretical and empirical questions on citizenship • integration policies • the limits of tolerance and multiculturalism • the intersection of migration and law
Publications related to European/EU Studies
  • Books: 2007 Creating European Citizens (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield), pp. i-ix, 1-179. Articles and book chapters:
  • 2009 “Unrespected, Unequal, Hollow?: Contingent Citizenship and Reversible Rights in the European Union,” in Columbia Journal of European Law, vol.15 no.2, Spring, pp. 265-80.
  • 2008 “Migrants, States, and EU Citizenship’s Unfulfilled Promise,” in Citizenship Studies, vol.12 no.6 December, pp. 583-596.
  • 2008 “Another Piece of Europe in Your Pocket: The European Health Insurance Card,” in David Lyon and Colin Bennett, eds., Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Comparative Perspective (New York: Routledge), pp. 268-79.
  • 2007 “The Evolution of EU Citizenship,” in Kathleen McNamara and Sophie Meunier, eds., Making History: European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 231-245.
  • 2006 “Free Movement after EU Enlargement,” in Roberto Domínguez and Joaquín Roy, eds., Towards the Completion of Europe: Analysis and Perspectives of the New European Union Enlargement (Coral Gables: University of Miami, Florida European Union Center), pp. 55-65.
  • 2005 “The Genesis of European Rights,” in Journal of Common Market Studies 43:5 (December), pp. 1009-25.
  • 2005 “Freedom of Movement inside ‘Fortress Europe’,” in Elia Zureik and Mark Salter, eds., Global Surveillance: Borders, Security, Identity (Portland: Willan), pp. 233-245.
Open to media contact
YES
Address
York University, Department of Political Science, Glendon College, 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M6
Office Phone Number
(416) 736-2100 x88326
Department Phone Number
(416) 487-6735
E-mail
Education and professional achievements
  • Yale University (New Haven CT), M.A. (1999), M.Phil. (2000), Ph.D., Political Science, 2004
  • University of Oxford (Oxford UK), Exchange Fellow, Nuffield College, 2000/01
  • Universiteit Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands), Doctoraal (M.A.), Politicologie (cum laude), 1998
  • University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), B.A., Political Science (hons), Geography (hons), 1995
  • Université Laval (Québec, QC), Certificat, Science politique, 1994
Courses taught
  • Introduction to Political Studies
  • Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • Politics of Migration and Citizenship
  • Comparative Political Systems: Western Europe
  • Theories and Institutions of European Integration
  • Comparative European Politics, New York University
  • The European Union: History and Politics
  • Graduate Research Seminar in European Studies
  • Senior Research Seminar in European Studies
  • European Integration
Fluent spoken languages
Dutch, English, French
Fluent written languages
Dutch, English, French

Willem Maas holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at York University and is executive member of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and of the Centre for Public Policy and Law, and is also member of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Currently, his areas of interest relate to: researching theoretical and empirical questions on citizenship, integration policies, the limits of tolerance and multiculturalism, and the intersection of migration and law.  In 2007, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. published his book Creating European Citizens. The book suggests that integration has always been about much more than economics, and that free movement of persons is central to integration, and that the political project of transcending borders and building a European community of people has implications for the global rise of rights.

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