Why Educational Exchange Programmes Miss Their Mark: Cross‐Border Mobility, Education and European Identity*

Kuhn, Theresa

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2012.02286.x

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“…The fact that transnational practices are not significantly associated with denationalization issues among elites might be due to a ceiling effect (Kuhn 2012). Accordingly, transnational practices might be significantly related to attitudes on denationalization issues up to a certain point.…”

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How Denationalization Divides Elites and Citizens

Teney

Helbling

2014

Zeitschrift Für Soziologie

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Summary: Based on a unique survey among members of top level elites in eleven fields of activity in Germany, we investigate (1) elite-mass opinion incongruence and (2) the polarization of elites' positions on four contested denationalization issues. Our results show that the elite-mass attitudinal gap is significant for items directly tapping support for the further opening up of national borders, even when controlling for education, age, gender, place of residence, and political orientation. By contrast, elites across different fields of activity hold rather consensual positions on the issues of denationalization explored in the survey. Transnational networking and transnational mobility are not significantly associated with attitudes toward these issues. Elites with a strong supranational identity are significantly more strongly in favor of opening up borders to immigrants and increasing aid to developing countries.Keywords: Elites; Globalization; Transnationalism; Attitudes; Social Cleavage; Germany.Zusammenfassung: Auf der Grundlage einer einmaligen Befragung von Eliten in Top-Positionen in elf Tätigkeitsfeldern erforschen wir (1) Inkongruenzen von Meinungen zwischen den Eliten und der Bevçlkerung und (2) die Polarisierung von Eliten-Positionen zu vier umstrittenen Denationalisierungs-Themen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Kluft zwischen den Eliten und der Bevçlkerung in jenen Fragen signifikant ausfällt, die in einem direkten Zusammenhang mit der weiteren Öffnung nationaler Grenzen stehen. Dieser Zusammenhang bleibt auch dann bestehen, wenn wir auf Bildung, Alter, Geschlecht, Wohnsitz und politische Orientierung kontrollieren. Im Gegensatz dazu nehmen Eliten, unabhängig von ihren Tätigkeitsfeldern, vergleichsweise einvernehmliche Positionen zu Fragen der Denationalisierung ein. Transnationale Aktivitäten und Mobilität stehen in keinem signifikanten Zusammenhang mit Einstellungen zu den vier untersuchten Themen. Eliten mit einer stark ausgeprägten supranationalen Identität sprechen sich allerdings deutlich häufiger dafür aus, die Grenzen für Einwanderer zu çffnen und die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zu intensivieren.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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How Denationalization Divides Elites and Citizens

Teney

Helbling

2014

Zeitschrift Für Soziologie

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“…These variables were included since findings from studies investigating the relationship between international experiences -mainly the Erasmus programme -and European identification, were mixed (e.g. King and Ruiz-Gelices, 2003;Kuhn, 2012;Sigalas, 2010;Van Mol, 2013;Mitchell, 2014 Table 2 provides a descriptive overview of the dependent variables in the analysis by union type. As can be seen noted, there seems to exist a difference in identification as a European between individuals in a uni-national and those who in a bi-national relationship, with those in a bi-national union scoring higher.…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

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Falling in love with(in) Europe: European bi-national love relationships, European identification and transnational solidarity

Mol

Valk

Wissen

2015

European Union Politics

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Love is often a key factor in migration decisions. Partner relationships and union formation have also been identified as forming an intrinsic part of intra-European migration. Nevertheless, empirical research into intra-European love migration remains rather scarce. In this paper, we focus on the often neglected but substantial intra-European moves. We analyse the relationship between bi-national couple formation, identification as a European and European transnational solidarity. The analyses are based on the EUMARR survey, investigating bi-national marriages in a unified Europe, comparing European bi-national and uni-national couples. In this paper, we focus on the Netherlands (n = 898) and compare Dutch–Dutch with Dutch–EU couples. Our findings indicate that bi-national couples are more likely to identify as European compared to uni-national couples, but this is not reflected in more solidarity to European countries in times of crisis. Implications of these findings are discussed in light of the European integration process.

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“…Third, gender is included as a dichotomous variable (0 = male, 1 = female), as women appear to be less enthusiastic about Europe (Fligstein 2008;Nelsen and Guth 2000;Recchi 2015). Fourth, I included two dichotomous variables indicating parental education (0 = no higher education, 1 = higher education) because highly educated individuals would be more likely to identify as Europeans (Citrin and Sides 2004;Fligstein 2008;Kuhn 2012;Recchi 2015). Finally, I included a dichotomous variable indicating whether the respondent lived abroad (0 = no, 1 = yes).…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Becoming Europeans: the relationship between student exchanges in higher education, European citizenship and a sense of European identity

Mol

2018

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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Since the initiation of the Erasmus programme in 1987, intra-European student exchanges in higher education are expected to promote a sense of European identity and citizenship among European exchange students. Panel studies grasping students' identification before and after participating in an exchange programme, however, remain remarkably scarce today. Moreover, the few existing studies report conflicting results. This paper adds to this debate, presenting the results of a survey conducted in 2009 and 2010 among non-exchange and exchange students from thirteen European countries, based on a pretest -posttest nonequivalent groups design (n = 400). My analyses did not find any statistically significant differences over time within and between the groups of exchange and non-exchange students, and neither between students with similar identification scores at wave 1. Finally, an analysis of the relationship between social network types and identification patterns did also not yield any significant results. Altogether, these findings suggest the impact of European exchange programmes on European citizenship and a sense of European identity is relatively limited.

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Why Educational Exchange Programmes Miss Their Mark: Cross‐Border Mobility, Education and European Identity*

Cited by 114 publications

References 56 publications

How Denationalization Divides Elites and Citizens

How Denationalization Divides Elites and Citizens

Falling in love with(in) Europe: European bi-national love relationships, European identification and transnational solidarity

Becoming Europeans: the relationship between student exchanges in higher education, European citizenship and a sense of European identity

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