Mobile citizens within the EU face social, cultural, and perception challenges. They may lose democratic rights and access to their own culture when living abroad. Their skills and qualifications may not be recognized in other countries. There is also insufficient assistance for citizens returning home from living abroad. A European Year for Mobile Citizens aims to defend EU citizens' right to free movement, address genuine concerns about mobility by providing facts, and establish a comprehensive policy around EU migration that considers economic, social, cultural, democratic, and return migration issues.

1. Social, cultural and perception aspects of
mobility
A European Year for Mobile Citizens
Ylva Tivéus
Riga 11 May 2015

2. People move to get a job or to get a better job
Being an expat equals becoming an ex-citizen

3. Some social, cultural and perception aspects of mobility
Loss of democratic rights
Less access to own culture
Lack of recognition of skills and qualifications
Insufficient assistance upon return
Perceptions and attitudes towards migration

7. What do you think are the two most important issues facing (our country) at the moment?

8. Please tell me whether each of the following statements evokes a positive or negative feeling for you

9. A European Year of Mobile Citizens
To defend the right to free movement for all EU citizens, to address the genuine
concerns related to free movement by getting the facts right,
To lay the foundations for a consistent and comprehensive European policy
integrating all aspects related to EU citizens’ mobility and migration.
• Macro-econoic aspects and better monitoring of intra-European labour
• Social and cultural aspects
• Democratic aspects
• Return migration and working with diaspora communities
To build bridges between the European diaspora inside and outside the
European Union

10. Thank you!
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