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.
Ettore Recchi is a Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po (Paris) and part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre of the EUI (Florence).
Adrian Favell is Chair in Sociology and Social Theory at the University of Leeds.
Fulya Apaydin is an Assistant Professor at Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI).
Roxana Barbulescu is Academic Fellow in New Migrations in UK and Europe at the School of Sociology and Social Policy of the University of Leeds.
Michael Braun is a Project Consultant at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and Adjunct Professor at the University of Mannheim.