Europe's Other

Strasser, Sabine

doi:10.1080/14616690701835261

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“…Crucially to such approaches, identification as a process requires a significant ‘Other’ for subsequent self‐definition (see Barth 1969; Blok 2000; De Swaan 2001; Erikson 1968; Jenkins 2004). The most commonly suggested ‘Others’ for an emerging European identity are the United States, Russia and, more recently, Islam and/or the Middle East (see Adamson 2004; Balch 2005; Benthall 2004; Grillo 2004; Strasser 2008). Some have proposed that Eastern and Western Europe can be seen as each other's Others (Kuus 2004), or that European nation‐states are constructed in opposition to Europe, and vice versa (Carey 2002).…”

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CosmoPoles: A Mixed‐methods Study on the European Identity of Higher‐educated Polish Youth

Moes¹

2009

Studies Ethnicity & National

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Through the combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses, this study investigates the extent to which a European identity has emerged across Europe and what it means to 'be European' for higher-educated Polish youth. The results of a quantitative comparative analysis (multilevel regression analysis on Eurobarometer survey data) are complemented by the results from a qualitative inquiry that was conducted within the framework of the same research project. It is argued that national and European political identifications are not mutually exclusive but rather seem to complement each other (both quantitatively and qualitatively). It is further argued that mixed-methods research designs offer a promising approach to the study of collective identities and Europeanisation.

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Section: Theories On Europeanisation and Collective Identitiesmentioning

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CosmoPoles: A Mixed‐methods Study on the European Identity of Higher‐educated Polish Youth

Moes¹

2009

Studies Ethnicity & National

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“…Strasser 2008;Salih 2004;Liebkind 1989;Grillo 2003Grillo , 2004. Indeed, in their quotidian choices, European Muslims selectively negotiate a variety of obligations and lifestyles to formulate a constellation of unique identities that -from the outside -appear to select from different spheres of belonging simultaneously.…”

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Reluctant pluralists: European Muslims and essentialist identities

Gest¹

2014

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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An emerging consensus among scholars of Muslim political and social identity suggests that Western Muslims live out an anti-essentialist critique of identity construction. Considering this view, this paper examines a cross-national comparison of British Bangladeshis in London and Spanish Moroccans in Madrid that solicits the perceptions of working-class Muslim men. While the results indeed reaffirm respondents' concomitant relationships to a variety of identity paradigms, interview content demonstrates that subjects' multiplicity is complicated by their desire to meet -not reject -the essentialist standards of belonging to the identity paradigms discursively available to them. Rather than defiantly cherry-picking preferred characteristics of religion, ethnicity and nationality, individuals' responses suggest that they are trying to fulfil perceived standards of authenticity. Such a contention helps explain the prevalence of Western Muslims' expressed and well-documented 'identity crisis', suggests the enduring relevance of identity essentialisms, and more broadly, complicates post-modern conceptions of identity formation.

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“…Turkey's ascension to the European Union (EU) has stalled. One of the fears blocking expansion of the EU is large-scale immigration (Strasser 2008). Understanding the determinants of interprovince migration in Turkey will help predict the extent of potential migration from Turkey to Europe and its likely destinations within the EU, should Turkey ever be part of the EU (Filiztekin and Go ¨khan 2008).…”

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A Model of Dynamic Flows: Explaining Turkey’s Interprovincial Migration

Aksoy

Yıldırım

2023

Sociological Methodology

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The flow of resources across nodes over time (e.g., migration, financial transfers, peer-to-peer interactions) is a common phenomenon in sociology. Standard statistical methods are inadequate to model such interdependent flows. We propose a hierarchical Dirichlet-multinomial regression model and a Bayesian estimation method. We apply the model to analyze 25,632,876 migration instances that took place between Turkey’s 81 provinces from 2009 to 2018. We then discuss the methodological and substantive implications of our results. Methodologically, we demonstrate the predictive advantage of our model compared to its most common alternative in migration research, the gravity model. We also discuss our model in the context of other approaches, mostly developed in the social networks literature. Substantively, we find that population, economic prosperity, the spatial and political distance between the origin and destination, the strength of the AKP (Justice and Development Party) in a province, and the network characteristics of the provinces are important predictors of migration, whereas the proportion of ethnic minority Kurds in a province has no positive association with in- and out-migration.

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Europe's Other

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

CosmoPoles: A Mixed‐methods Study on the European Identity of Higher‐educated Polish Youth

CosmoPoles: A Mixed‐methods Study on the European Identity of Higher‐educated Polish Youth

Reluctant pluralists: European Muslims and essentialist identities

A Model of Dynamic Flows: Explaining Turkey’s Interprovincial Migration

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