Full Description
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.
The book considers how people reconcile their increasing cross-border interconnections and a politically separating Europe of nation states and national interests.
Contents
Introduction. Social transnationalism in an unsettled continent ‾ Favell and Recchi
Cartographies of social transnationalism ‾ Savage, Cunningham, Reimer and Favell
The social structure of transnational practices ‾ Salamo?ska and Recchi
Cultural boundaries and transnational consumption patterns ‾ Hanquinet and Savage
Social transnationalism and supranational identifications ‾ Pötzschke and Braun
Explaining supranational solidarity ‾ Díez Medrano, Ciornei and Apaydin
Narratives and varieties of everyday transnationalism ‾ Favell, Solgaard Jensen and Reimer
Understanding Romanians' cross-border mobility in Europe: movers, stayers and returnees ‾ Barbulescu, Ciornei and Varela
Transnational Turkey: the everyday transnationalism and diversity of Turkish populations in Europe ‾ Duru, Favell and Varela
Epilogue. Is social transnationalism fusing European societies into one? ‾ Recchi
Methodological appendix ‾ Pötzschke, Braun, Ciornei and Apaydin
