Description:
Drawing on unique research and rich data on cross-border practices, this book offers an empirically-based view on Europeans' interconnections in everyday life. It looks at the ways in which EU residents have been getting closer across national frontiers: in their everyday experiences of foreign countries - work, travel, personal networks - but also their knowledge, consumption of foreign products, and attitudes towards foreign culture.
These evolving European dimensions have been enabled by the EU-backed legal opening to transnational economic and cultural transactions, while also differing according to national contexts. The book considers how people reconcile their increasing cross-border interconnections and a politically separating Europe of nation states and national interests.
Brief description: Ettore Recchi is a Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po (Paris) and part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre of the EUI (Florence).
Review Quotes: "Students of international politics, academics and politicians will find much to concern them in this well-constructed, balanced research project and, it is to be hoped, will also heed the warnings it exposes." Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship