Abstract Citizenship is defined in terms of national contexts, institutions, or practices. Apart from noting one’s membership in a certain polity, citizenship can be understood to have – at least – three meanings as follows: it can signify access, identification, and practice. This article examines these three dimensions based on the experiences of highly skilled Finns living in other European Union member states. Do they adopt the legal citizenship of the new country to gain access to legal and civic rights? Do they begin to identify with and assimilate to their new home country? Is citizenship played out in the everyday life as practice? The article concludes that thanks to European citizenship, all three interpretations are present at the same time.

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欧洲内部移民与一体化问题：

摘要公民身份是根据国家背景，机构或惯例来定义的。除了注意到某人是某一种政体的成员身份外，公民身份至少可以理解为以下三个含义：它可以表示访问，标识和实践。本文根据居住在其他欧盟成员国的高技能芬兰人的经验来研究这三个方面。他们是否采用新国家的合法公民身份来获得法律和公民权利？他们是否开始认同并融入新的祖国？公民身份是否在日常生活中发挥作用？本文的结论是，由于欧洲公民身份，这三种解释都同时出现。