Empirische Befunde zu Raum-, Zeit- und Befindlichkeitseffekten bei Umfragen

Ambiguous Identities at the Rhine border

“…Yet, it is when looking at the salience of attitudes that the ambiguity -and not simply hybridity -surrounding multiple political identities more clearly emerges. While hybridity refers to a logically composed coherent identity-mix made of different realities, ambiguity as a concept better stresses the context-dependent character of attitudes on identities (Bachleitner et al 2010). In particular, in our border context, a European attitude only emerges when provoked, either by the moderator or by a provocative family member, despite regular border crossing, so much so that European identity does not appear as a particularly significant referent.…”