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Willem Maas (BA, UBC;
Doctoraal, Leiden;
MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale)
holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and teaches political
science
and public
& international affairs at the
bilingual liberal arts campus of York
University in Toronto, Canada, with joint appointment in York’s
graduate programs in Political
Science and Social &
Political Thought. He is executive member of the Canadian
Centre
for German and European Studies and the Centre for Public Policy and Law
and member of the
Centre for Refugee
Studies.
Maas’s first book, Creating European Citizens,
explains the development of supranational rights
culminating in EU citizenship. It suggests that integration
has always been about much more than economics, 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.
Professor Maas is currently researching theoretical
and empirical questions on citizenship, integration
policies, the limits of tolerance and multiculturalism, and the
intersection of migration and law.
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