The past hundred years of Europe are distilled in the experiences
of the citizens of Strasbourg. From the turn of the twentieth
century until 1945, Europe's ruling idea of nationalism rendered
Strasbourg/StraAYburg the prize in a tug-of-war between the two
greatest continental powers, France and Germany. Then, in the
immediate post-war period, ideals for European unity set up various
European institutions, some headquartered in Strasbourg, which have
gradually created a partially supranational Europe. At the end of
the 1950s, a third theme arises: the large-scale settling in
Strasbourg and other such richer, western European cities of
persons from poorer lands, frequently ex-colonial territories,
whose appearance and cultural practices render them essentially
"different" to local eyes: expressions of racism thereby jostle
with professions of multiculturalism. Now in the globalisation era,
the issue of "immigration" has broadened yet further into
transnationalism: the experience of persons who are embedded in
varying manner in both Strasbourg and in their land of origin.
Based on in-depth, lively interviews with 80 men and 80 women
ranging from 101 to 20 years, and from all over the world (France,
Germany, Alsace-Lorraine, Portugal, Italy, ex-Yugoslavia, Albania,
Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Cameroon, and Afghanistan amongst other
countries), the author draws out of these compelling testimonies
all sorts of compelling insights into issues of identity, race,
nationality, culture, politics, heritage and representation, giving
a unique and valuable view of what it means (and has meant over the
past century) to be a European.
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