EU member states must work together to tackle migration flows | Letters

Andy Burnham’s contribution (Let’s take back control of the immigration debate, 17 December) is sane and helpful but incomplete. The EU principle of freedom of movement is not incompatible with Britain’s interest in managing immigration. The issue is not mobility itself, but whether mobility involves entitlement to full citizenship rights – social security, residence, healthcare, employment, etc. Citizenship is a political, economic and social status, as the sociologist T