Imagining Europe: everyday narratives in European border communities

Armbruster, Heidi; Rollo, Craig; Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna

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“…Recent work on borders and identity published in this journal (Armbruster, Rollo, Meinhof, 2003; has shown that in a situation of unstructured interviews with members of border communities, Europe does not fare very well as an identity reference. If we consider that border communities are the most likely to 'experience' Europe in their everyday lives, this is certainly a paradox.…”

Section: Away From Borders: Europe and Borders?mentioning

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On what citizens mean by feeling ‘European’: perceptions of news, symbols and borderless‐ness

Bruter

2004

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Section: Away From Borders: Europe and Borders?mentioning

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On what citizens mean by feeling ‘European’: perceptions of news, symbols and borderless‐ness

Bruter

2004

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Studies of non-migrants have focused on everyday encounters between migrants and non-migrants in local community settings (Armbruster, Rolb and Meinhof, 2003;Valentine and Sadgrove, 2014;Herbert et al, 2008;Fox and Jones, 2013). Common to this literature is a methodological consensus that researching everyday experiences of largescale international trends offers the capacity to increase the depth of our understanding of migration.…”

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Experiencing transnationalism at home: Open borders and the everyday narratives of non-migrants

Tonkiss

2016

Politics

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The normative migration rights literature has engaged with the situated experience of migration to a very limited extent, with particularly little attention paid to non-migrants living in receiving localities. This article argues that exploring the non-elite narratives of non-migrants provides valuable insights for normative theorising about migration rights. The discussion is illustrated with a description of research undertaken within rural migration-receiving communities in England, which shows how the narratives of non-migrants shape the experience of migration at a micro-level. This article discusses the implications of this research for normative theory in order to demonstrate the value of this methodological approach.

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“…Lack of an adequate narrative for Europe is cited as one of the causes of its current weakness, and a cause of problems with EU integration [2]. Creating the common narrative for Portugal, in a poem 'Os Lusíadas', by Luis de Camoe has been seen as one of the main causes for the rise of Portugal as a nation separate from Spain.…”

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Social Psychology and the Narrative Economy

Nowak

Kacprzyk-Murawska

Serwotka

2017

Understanding Complex Systems

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Economics can benefit through adopting various ideas from social psychology. Social and economic processes can be analysed at different levels: the microlevel (individuals), mesolevel (system structures), and macrolevel (whole socioeconomic system). Contrary to classic economic models, when making decisions, people do not consider all available information at the microlevelthis is not possible. Decisions may have many competing dimensions and there may be no single optimum. Whereas in traditional economy the main difference between the levels is the degree of aggregation, social constructionism studies how individuals cooperatively create, change and maintain their understanding of the world. Meanings arise as a result of coordinated action of humans who interpret their world by building models of it and how it functions. A natural way of acquiring meanings and conveying them to others is through narratives-stories that have a beginning, a body, and an end. Narratives exist at all levels of social reality. They provide the structure by which an individual can understand the world, with their roles in narratives individuals suggesting how to behave. Interacting individuals socially construct narratives bottom-up. Group narratives emerge from integration of stories describing individual experiences of actors. Shared narratives allow actors to find commonality in their experiences, find coherence in the flow of events and allow them to coordinate in common actions. At the macrolevel narratives define the system and its common culture. Sometimes narration may have more impact on an economy than hard data. Even the choice of which facts we refer to and those we do not may determine the leading narrative and hence the behaviour of people. Socio-economic processes can and should be analysed in line with narratives linking individuals, organisations and societies to better understand what is happening in the whole economic system.

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Imagining Europe: everyday narratives in European border communities

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On what citizens mean by feeling ‘European’: perceptions of news, symbols and borderless‐ness

On what citizens mean by feeling ‘European’: perceptions of news, symbols and borderless‐ness

Experiencing transnationalism at home: Open borders and the everyday narratives of non-migrants

Social Psychology and the Narrative Economy

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