Imagining and constructing intersecting Balkan identities: Young people's constructions of identity in Romania and Bulgaria Cover Image

Imagining and constructing intersecting Balkan identities : Young people's constructions of identity in Romania and Bulgaria
Imagining and constructing intersecting Balkan identities: Young people's constructions of identity in Romania and Bulgaria

Author(s): Alistair Ross
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: identity; young people; Eastern Europe; marginalization; migration; globalization

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the intersection between potentially conflicting territorial or political identities of the self that arise as young people in Bulgaria and Romania attempt to reconcile their potential memberschips of a national community, a regional Balkan identity, and a European identity. The educational implications of this analysis relate to young people in much wider context than two south- estern European countries.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 9-32
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: English