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This booklet offers theoretical and empirical dialogue of migration, id and Europeanisation. With contributions from top foreign students, it presents either an summary of theoretical views and a finished set of case reports, protecting either jap and Western Europe. individuals draw from disciplines equivalent to historic sociology, discourse research, social psychology and migration reviews, whereas the editors deliver those matters right into a coherent theoretical and historic framework, to debate the emergence of latest collective identities and new borders in Europe at the present time.
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They also give, therefore, different answers to the debates on the Europeanisation of collective identities and the re-organisation of symbolic and territorial boundaries between nations and (multi-)national states. In this sense, neither the theoretical arguments nor the empirical findings presented here aim to be conclusive or to provide generalised answers to questions such as will the European Union prove a viable political project? Has a sense of belonging to Europe developed? Or has the nation died?
The Enlightenment was a European movement that transcended the territorial boundaries and aimed at a universal community of mankind. Everybody’s true identity was European – and it was the task of education and emancipation to further the awareness of this identity. Thus what started as a genuine European movement dissolved into a free-floating discourse that appealed to by every human being, everywhere and in every time. Contemporary criticism frequently accuses the Enlightenment of being insensitive to cultural differences.