Transnationalism as an index to construct European Identities: an Analysis of "Trans-European"

The data has suggested that transnationalism can represent a powerful referent in the imagination of Europe as a space and as a community between various dimensions. Transnational narratives could drive the construction of Europeanness from bottom-up and towards postnational forms of membership alternative to institutional identity projects. The analysis has also suggested that, whilst national referents can still interplay in the imagination of Europeanness, nationhood becomes increasingly volatile as national identity referents were recontextualised, deterritorialised, represented in transition or rejected altogether by members. Of course, this study has only been able to draw a partial picture of the complex dynamics at play in the articulation of (European) identities and it would welcome further investigation on similar sites of production of Europeanness.

Appendix 1 Summarising socio demographic data collected through questionnaires at focus groups

Appendix 2 Summary of socio demographic data collected through questionnaires at individual interviews

LEGEND: CAT - Catalan; CZ - Czech; ENG - English; FR - French; GER - German; GR - Greek; HUN - Hungarian; IT - Italian; MAC - Macedonian POR - Portuguese; ROM - Romanian; RU - Russian; SB-CR - Serbo-Croatian; SP - Spanish; SW - Swedish; TUR - Turkish.

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