Description
Book SynopsisThis book combines the conceptualization of social identity with historical analysis to rethink discussions of Europeanization and minorities. Problematizing the EUâs attempts to create a âœEuropean social identity,â it demonstrates how post-war Europeanization instead generated new sources of identity polarization that produced the new minorities.
Trade ReviewOngur analyzes both ‘minorities of Europeanization’ and ‘Europeanization of minorities’, arguing that groups such as Roma, populations of the Western Balkans, immigrants, Russophones in the Baltic states, and Muslims in Europe are excluded from an emerging European social identity that is not imposed top-down but grows organically. This book is a useful corrective to those who expect that a supranational European citizenship will easily overcome historical differences and discord. -- Willem Maas, York University
Table of ContentsChapter I: Introduction Chapter II: Historicizing European Identity Through Europeanization Chapter III: Late-Modern European Self-Definition, the Other, and Social Identity Theory Chapter IV: Europeanization of Minorities vs. Minorities of Europeanization: A Historical Study Chapter V: Conclusion
