“Homo limes” — Cross-border people and cross-border citizenship : Sociolegal explorations

Joxerramon Bengoetxea; Ihintza Palacin Mariscal

doi:10.35295/osls.iisl.2518

Authors

Joxerramon Bengoetxea University of the Basque Country https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5754-3677
Ihintza Palacin Mariscal University of the Basque Country https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3954-8113

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2518

Keywords:

cross-border, transfrontier, citizenship, European Union, lifeworld

Abstract

MacCormick made an important contribution to Jurisprudence and Sociology of Law through his distinction between the norm-giver and the norm-user perspectives. Norm-givers and norm users, in his scheme, are in the same political community, in distinct communities with distinct institutions: users and givers share the same jurisdiction. But there are special cases of norm-users that are carrying out their ordinary lives in different communities. We can call them cross-border people. They live one part of their lives in one community and another part of their lives in another community, and both are bordering, and often share some features besides territorial continuity. As norm users they can belong to two different communities of norm users. As citizens, they can belong to two different demoi at the same time. We shall be applying these considerations to the Basque border regions to ask whether cross-border relationships are generating a new type of cross-border citizenship.

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