Intra‐European Student Mobility and European Identity: A Successful Marriage?

Christof Van Mol

doi:10.1002/psp.1752

journal article Nov 12, 2012

Intra‐European Student Mobility and European Identity: A Successful Marriage?

Christof Van Mol

Population, Space and Place Vol. 19 No. 2 pp. 209-222 · Wiley

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ABSTRACTStudies on European identity generally focus on elites, even though processes of identity formation may also take place in other societal domains. As one of the underlying rationales of European student exchange programmes is the promotion of European citizenship, I examine empirically the influence of European student mobility on European identity. The analysis is based on a mixed‐method approach. The quantitative element consists of an online survey at nine universities in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Norway, and Poland at the end of the 2008–2009 academic year. The qualitative element consists of 40 in‐depth interviews and five focus groups, conducted at the universities of Antwerp, Innsbruck, Oslo, Rome, and Warsaw in 2009–2010. The analysis underpins the need for incorporating an ‘experience‐based’ social dimension into the existing theoretical frameworks of political and cultural dimensions of European identity. This creation of an ‘experience‐based social Europe’ among mobile students is the result of socialisation processes that are characterised by internal and external identity observations and goes beyond the political unit of the European Union. However, regional differences can be observed and partially attributed to macro‐factors such as the (non‐)participation of a country in the European Union. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Published: Nov 12, 2012
Vol/Issue: 19(2)
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Christof Van Mol

Centre for Migration and International Studies University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium

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Christof Van Mol (2012). Intra‐European Student Mobility and European Identity: A Successful Marriage?. Population, Space and Place, 19(2), 209-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.1752

Intra‐European Student Mobility and European Identity: A Successful Marriage?

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