1st Edition

The Construction of European Identity among Ethnic Minorities ‘Euro-Minorities’ in Generational Perspective

By Natalia Waechter Copyright 2020
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is concerned with European identities among ethnic minorities who live along the eastern border of the European Union. Based on findings from quantitative and qualitative empirical research conducted with minority groups in eight nation-states on both sides of the new eastern border of the EU, it investigates their attitudes and perceptions of the EU based on their constructions of... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Theories and State-of-the-Art  3. Beyond the State-of-the-Art  4. Methodology and Empirical Design  5. Historical, Political and Social Contexts of Ethnic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe  6. Quantitative Results  7. Qualitative Results  8. Conclusions: What do we learn from Euro-minorities?  Appendix 1: Questionnaire  Appendix 2: Interview Transcript Rules

Biography

Natalia Waechter is Professor of Pedagogy and Youth Research at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Germany. She is European Vice President of the RC34 (Sociology of Youth) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and editorial member of the Austrian Journal of Sociology and of Emerging Adulthood. She is also editor of Identities in Central and Eastern Europe: The Construction and Interplay of European, National and Ethnic Identities