Cross-border mobility and european identity: The effectiveness of intergroup contact during the ERASMUS year abroad

European Union Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 241-265

  Sigalas, Emmanuel ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

ERASMUS; European identity; Intergroup contact; Karl Deutsch; Student mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953489555     PISSN: 14651165     EISSN: 17412757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1465116510363656     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Adonnino P. (1985) A people's Europe: Reports from the ad hoc committee. Bulletin of the European Communities, Supplement no.78/85.
2. Allport GW (1954) The Nature of Prejudice. Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley.
3. Amir Y. (1969) Contact hypothesis in ethnic relations. Psychological Bulletin 71(5): 319-342.
4. Beetham D., Lord C. (1998) Legitimacy and the European Union. London: Longman.
5. Bellamy R., Castiglione D. (2003) Legitimizing the Euro-'Polity' and its 'Regime'. European Journal of Political Theory 2(1): 7-34.
6. Bochner S. (1982) The social psychology of cross-cultural relations. In: Bochner S (ed.) Cultures in Contact. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 5-44.
7. Brown R., Zagefka H. (2005) Ingroup affiliations and prejudice. In: Dovidio J, Glick P, and Rudman L (eds) On the Nature of Prejudice. Oxford: Blackwell, 54-67.
8. Bruter M. (2005) Citizens of Europe? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
9. Castiglione D. (2009) Political identity in a community of strangers. In: Checkel J, Katzenstein P (eds) European Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 29-51.
10. Cinnirella M. (1997) Towards a European Identity? Interactions between the national and European social identities manifested by students in Britain and Italy. British Journal of Social Psychology 36(1): 19-31.
11. Citrin J., Sides J. (2004) More than nationals: How identity choice matters in New Europe. In: Herrman R, Risse T, and Brewer M (eds) Transnational Identities. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 161-185.
12. Commission of the European Communities (1986) Proposal for a Council Decision Adopting the European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (Erasmus). COM (85): 756/2 final.
13. Commission of the European Union (2008) Erasmus Statistics. Available at: http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus/doc/stat/table1.pdf.
14. Connor W. (1972) Nation-building or nation-destroying? World Politics 24(3): 319-355.
15. Council of Ministers (1987) Council Decision of 15 June 1987 Adopting the European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (ERASMUS). Official Journal of the European Communities 166: 20-24.
16. D'Apollonia AC (2002) European nationalism and European Union. In: Pagden A (ed.) The Idea of Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 171-190.
17. Decker F. (2002) Governance beyond the nation-state. Reflections on the democratic deficit of the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy 9(2): 256-272.
18. Delanty G. (2007) Europeanization and democracy: The question of cultural identity. In: DeBardeleben J, Hurrelmann A (eds) Democratic Dilemmas of Multilevel Governance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 77-93.
19. Deutsch K. (1966 [1953]) Nationalism and Social Communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
20. Deutsch K., Burrel SA, Kann RA,et al(1968 [1957]) Political Community and the North Atlantic Area. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
21. Dovidio J., Glick P., and Rudman L. (2005) On the Nature of Prejudice. Oxford: Blackwell.
22. Easton D. (1965) A Systems Analysis of Political Life. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
23. Eller A., Abrams D. (2004) Come together: Longitudinal comparisons of Pettigrew's reformulated intergroup contact model and the common ingroup identity model in Anglo-French and Mexican-American contexts. European Journal of Social Psychology 34(3): 229-256.
24. Eriksen EO, Fossum JE (2007) Europe in Transformation. RECON Online Working Paper no. 1. Available at: www.reconproject.eu.
25. Etzioni A. (2007) The community deficit. Journal of Common Market Studies 45(1): 23-42.
26. European Council (1983) Solemn declaration on European Union. Bulletin of the European Communities, no. 6/1983.
27. Featherstone K. (1994) Jean Monnet and the 'Democratic Deficit' in the European Union. Journal of Common Market Studies 32(2): 149-170.
28. Figel J. (2006) My vision for European student mobility in the next decade. Speech at the UK Erasmus Student Committee Conference, EUROPA Press Releases no. 06/398.
29. Fligstein N. (2008) Euro-Clash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
30. Fuchs D., Guinaudeau I., and Schubert S. (2009) National identity, European identity and Euroscepticism. In: Fuchs D, Magni-Berton R, and Rogers A (eds) Euroscepticism. Opladen: Barbara Budrich, 91-112.
31. Gaertner S., Dovidio J. (2000) Reducing Intergroup Bias. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
32. Green D. (2007) The Europeans: Political Identity in an Emerging Polity. London: Lynne Rienner.
33. Habermas J. (2001) Why Europe needs a constitution. New Left Review 11: 5-26.
34. Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) (2009) Selected 2003/04 Data. Available at: www.hesa.ac.uk.
35. Hobsbawm E. (1992) Nations and Nationalism since 1780. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
36. King R., Ruiz-Gelices E. (2003) International student migration and the European 'year abroad': Effects on European identity and subsequent migration behaviour. International Journal of Population Geography 9(3): 229-252.
37. Kohn H. (1955) Nationalism. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand.
38. Kraus P. (2008) A Union of Diversity: Language, Identity and Polity-Building in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
39. Krämer-Byrne S. (2002) The Experience of Female ERASMUS Students in Higher Education. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
40. Lijphart A. (1964) Tourist traffic and integration potential. Journal of Common Market Studies 2(3): 251-261.
41. McLaren L. (2006) Identity, Interests and Attitudes to European Integration. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
42. Marks G. (1999) Territorial identities in the European Union. In: Anderson J (ed.) Regional Integration and Democracy. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 69-91.
43. Mather J. (2006) Legitimating the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
44. Meyer C. (1999) Political legitimacy and the invisibility of politics: Exploring the European Union's communication deficit. Journal of Common Market Studies 37(4): 617-639.
45. Menard S. (1991) Longitudinal Research - Sage University Papers on Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences 07(76). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
46. Merritt R. (1972) Effects of international students exchange. In: Merritt R (ed.) Communication in International Politics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 65-94.
47. Mill JS (1996 [1861]) Nationality. In: Woolf S (ed.) Nationalism in Europe, 1815 to the Present. London: Routledge, 40-47.
48. Obradovic D. (1996) Policy legitimacy and the European Union. Journal of Common Market Studies 34(2): 191-217.
49. Otero MS, McCoshan A. (2006) Survey of the Socio-Economic Background of ERASMUS Students. Available at: http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/socrates/erasmus/survey06.pdf.
50. Petit I. (2007) Mimicking history: The European Commission and its education policy. World Political Science Review 3(1): 1-24.
51. Pettigrew TF (1998) Intergroup contact theory. Annual Review of Psychology 49: 65-85.
52. Renan E. (1996 [1882]) What is a nation? In: Woolf S (ed.) Nationalism in Europe, 1815 to the Present London: Routledge, 48-60.
53. Risse T. (2002) Nationalism and collective identities: Europe versus the nation-state? In: Heywood P, Jones E, and Rhodes M (eds) Developments in West European Politics vol 2. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 77-93.
54. Rubio, JGdG, Allue MTD, and Mullet E. (2002) Studying, working, and living in another country: Spanish youth's point of view. Journal of European Integration 24(1): 53-67.
55. Shore C. (2000) Building Europe: The Cultural Politics of European Integration. London: Routledge.
56. Smith A. (1995) Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era. Cambridge: Polity.
57. Stangor C., Jonas K., Stroebe W.,et al(1996) Influence of student exchange on national stereotypes, attitudes and perceived group variability. European Journal of Social Psychology 26(4): 663-675.
58. Stroebe W., Lenkert A., and Jonas K. (1988) Familiarity may breed contempt: The impact of student exchange on national stereotypes and attitudes. In: Stroebe W, Kruglanski A, Bar-Tal D,et al(eds) The Social Psychology of Intergroup Conflict. London: Springer, 167-187.
59. Tajfel H. (1978) Differentiation between Social Groups. London: Academic Press.
60. Wallace W. (1990) The Transformation of Western Europe. London: Pinter.
61. Ward C., Bochner S., and Furnham A. (2001) The Psychology of Culture Shock. Hove: Routledge.
62. Weiler JHH (1997) To be a european citizen - Eros and civilization. Journal of European Public Policy 4(4): 495-519.