European identity in intercultural context

"This volume explores a topical issue in the current period: the European identity in the context provided by intra-European educational mobility. Based on solid analytical sources and rigorous empirical research, the main purpose of the book is to investigate the emergence of a European sense of self in the young, educated people who have recently pursued an academic sojourn in Europe. Thus, in a comparative perspective grounded both theoretically and empirically, the present study is conducted among Eramus students from Romania and the Netherlands, and aims to capture whether they tend to activate a European identity during their exchange experience abroad. A refined analysis of the obtained data highlights the conclusion that European identity is not just a conceptual reality, but an interactional reality that may become salient in certain social contexts."