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Bunzl, Matti Gille, Zsuzsa Orta, Andrew Saul, Mahir Asher, Andrew D. 2011-01-14T19:21:53Z 2011-01-14T19:21:53Z 2008 "Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2003 and 2006 in the border cities of Slubice, Poland and Frankfurt(Oder), Germany, this dissertation is an examination of the meanings and practices of the European Union's transnational citizenship policies. By documenting the everyday negotiations, interactions, and reflections of life on the Polish-German border, this study chronicles both the successes and failures of European Union citizenship at the local level, and focuses particularly on how various social groups experience European Union citizenship in disparate ways, how the performance of citizenship contributes to the formation of transnational public spaces and identities, and how the tension between the legal and cultural elements of European Union citizenship profoundly structures local citizenship practice. The key intervention of this study is the observation that even as European Union policies aimed at creating deterritorialized economic, social, and political spaces expand supranational citizenship rights and privileges, hierarchies of value embedded within these policies grant rights differentially to individuals and groups in ways that are often linked to ethnicity and nationality. This dissertation therefore argues that despite European Union policymakers' efforts to create a hybridized ""European"" identity that might transcend historical conflicts and divisions, the processes they are using to pursue this goal are simultaneously generating new forms of difference and inequality." Submitted by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2011-01-14T19:21:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Asher_Andrew.pdf: 7488925 bytes, checksum: ec475f46354e43beb244a7baeba17072 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-01-14T19:21:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Asher_Andrew.pdf: 7488925 bytes, checksum: ec475f46354e43beb244a7baeba17072 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18214 en Copyright 2008 Andrew D. Asher Citizenship Borders European Union studies Poland Transnational governance European Union Germany Borderline Europeans: European Union Citizenship on the Polish-German Frontier Dissertation / Thesis text Anthropology Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. Dissertation