Border Discourse. Changing Nations, changing Identities, changing Stories in Polish and German Border Communities, 1998-2001

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This is a qualitative data collection. The project targeted three-generation families living in corresponding sets of geographically contiguous border communities on the border between the EU and some of its Eastern and Southern neighbours, in the case of this dataset on the border between the German town of Guben and the Polish town of Gubin. The communities on which the research focussed on have undergone major socio-political, highly conflictual changes during the lifetimes of all but their youngest citizens. Today they are associated at the public level with the aims of creating a socially inclusive, tolerant, cohesive and economically prosperous united Europe. The research proposed to gain comparative and in-depth insights into the nature of potentially conflicting identities which people from different nations, ethnicities, generations and genders construct and negotiate in relation and possibly in contrast and opposition to the official spheres of politics, and to recommend policies that would further social cohesion between such communities at local, national and in particular at the European level.

Simple random sample

Face-to-face interview

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-7568-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=5bab637b690eeb47b7563a85bf0769a44a4f65d7daf7816c4be187538bede980
Provenance
Creator Galasinski, D., University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences; Meinhof, F., University of Southampton
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2015
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
Rights Copyright U. Meinhof and D. Galasinski; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p>
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Resource Type Text
Discipline History; Humanities
Spatial Coverage German Democratic Republic; German Federal Republic; Poland