A Narrative Approach to Europe’s Identity Crisis

Cmeciu, Camelia; Manolache, Madalina

doi:10.1080/10848770.2018.1438871

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“…Our analyses confirm that European identity does not necessarily translate to identification with the European Union as an institutional actor or protector of rights (see Castiglione, 2009; Cmeciu and Manolache, 2018; Pryke, 2020). The importance of the European Union featured indirectly in the narratives and concentrated on freedom of mobility and the importance of relating to familiar others in a borderless Europe (e.g.…”

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What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

Bogacki

Botterill

Burrell

et al. 2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This article takes the concept of spatial imaginaries to explore how the post-Brexit negotiations shifted meanings of ‘Europe’ for Polish migrants residing in Scotland. A flourishing subfield of ‘Brexit geographies’ has explored the meaning and consequences of Brexit (as an event, process and affect) for wide-ranging communities on the move and in place. Yet, the question of how ‘Europe’, and in particular ‘EUrope’, is being re-imagined and re-constituted by EU migrants residing in uncertain political spaces remains understudied. In this article, we address this lacuna through analysis of biographical narrative interviews and spatial mapping exercises. In doing so, we conduct a multi-scalar analysis of Polish migrants’ discursive and visual representations of EUrope, defined both as a geographical and institutional space. The study is spatially and temporally situated at a particular time and place in the Brexit timeline – the summer of 2019 in rural and urban Scotland. At this time, Brexit negotiations were ongoing, there was widespread uncertainty about the consequences for migrants in the United Kingdom, and, in Scotland particularly, much resistance to leaving the European Union. The article argues that while Brexit might have not affected European identity among Polish migrants in Scotland, it has prompted them to reconsider their place in Europe and to reimagine both the geographical and conceptual parameters of EUrope.

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What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

Bogacki

Botterill

Burrell

et al. 2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…There are a couple of qualitative studies that have dived more deeply into what it means to be a European citizen or to be European for individuals living in Europe using a bottom-up individual-level perspective. These studies used either individual interviews (Scalise, 2015), focus group discussions (Bruter, 2004), or qualitative content analysis of user comments on an E-Citizens platform (Cmeciu & Manolache, 2018) to get in-depth knowledge about participants' conceptions about European identity. A seven-nation study on European identity using Q methodology (see further below) focused on subjective meanings of European identity against the background of national identity and supranational discourses and found various conceptualizations of European identity, and their relations to national identity, within and across countries (Robyn, 2005).…”

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Who is We: Capturing (European) Identity Content by Integrating Qualitative Methods in Survey-Based Approaches

Jugert,

Mayer,

Eckstein

et al. 2024

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European identity can mean different things to different people. Yet, past quantitative research has largely focused on the extent to which individuals identify with Europe, and only in a limited way on the meaning and content of that identity. This is problematic because depending on the content of European identity, it may be associated with varying positions towards issues like immigration or Euroscepticism. In this overview, we present two different methods how to assess identity content that can be implemented in survey research. These represent open-ended questions on what it means to be European and Q methodology, asking participants to sort different aspects of Europe according to whether they strengthen or weaken attachment. Different analytical methods exist to group participants’ answers, leading to different results. Drawing on four studies that have used these methods, participants displayed a variety of understandings of Europe and Europeanness, which tap into ethnic heritage, culture, civic institutions, and individual practices among others. These findings highlight the importance to assess identity content next to identity processes (e.g., identification).

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A Narrative Approach to Europe’s Identity Crisis

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What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

Who is We: Capturing (European) Identity Content by Integrating Qualitative Methods in Survey-Based Approaches

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