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*Neither here nor there: locating and identifying Europe
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Panel Convenors: *Julia Holdsworth and Michaela Lord
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Building on recent debates about Europe and European Identity, this
panel brings together a range of papers focussing on movements, both
physical and conceptual, to explore interrelations between local
identities and imaginings of supranational, European identities.
Questions about the interdependency between conceptual and physical
movement arise from recent European Union expansion alongside increases
in temporary and permanent migration of people within Europe. The role
of imaginings of ‘Europe’ within these movements requires further
interrogation.

Fundamentally, this panel explores the fragmentations, coalescences, and
tensions created through movements within and across Europe. We suggest
that the different ways individuals imagine themselves to be part of a
wider ‘European’ community, whether the European Union or a wider notion
of 'Europe', impact on the identities they perform. At times, they may
draw on notions of an homogenized Europe, while, at other times, they
stress the differences between different national or local identities.
Actions and choices in issues such as migration are influenced and
transformed through individual employment and articulation of these
imaginings in the course of daily life. We ask questions such as: What
are the consequences of accession to the European Union for people in
Central and Eastern Europe and in existing member states? What role does
an imagining of 'Europe' play in migration between different parts of
Europe?

This panel invites papers that address the intertwined notions of
physical and imagined movements within Europe and, in so doing,
contribute to the debate about what and where Europe is. We encourage
both conceptual and ethnographic contributions that engage with a range
of topics to investigate the ways agents engage and detach from the
'Europe' of their imagining in both their physical and imagined movements.

For information on how to submit a paper to this panel please consult *
*http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa06/easa06_panels.php?PanelID=88

Please note that the deadline for submissions is 1st May 2006.

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