Tag: mamu
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Finland’s post-1990s social settlement produced a specific kind of outsider: the citizen who holds the passport but not the membership. The white crow is not a foreigner. But the mechanism that keeps the foreigner on a temporary permit—provisional inclusion, conditional belonging, permanent assessment—operates on the white crow with the same effect. The difference is that…
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The Earned Advantage, and Why the Middle Class’s Own Story Makes Its Defence Indefensible An advantage that is earned cannot be defended. The defence is the confession that it was not earned. I. THE STORY The middle class has a story about itself, and the story is about time. It is the story of deferred…
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EUROPEAN COOPERATIVE SOCIETY, INCOME-REQUIREMENT ARBITRAGE, AND REMOTE SERVICE ACROSS BORDERS Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: EU Member States INTRODUCTION The Societas Cooperativa Europaea (SCE) —the European Cooperative Society—is the EU’s supranational legal form for cooperatives. Established by Council Regulation (EC) No 1435/2003 and operational since 2006, the SCE was…
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STREAMLINED PATHWAYS, FLEXIBLE ARRANGEMENTS, AND SUPPORT ZONES FOR INTERNATIONAL FAMILIES IN EUROPE Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: EU Member States, with Speculative Urban Models INTRODUCTION The previous post established the portable visa as anti-capture technology: a legal design that decouples the right to remain from the continuation of a…