Мобилни идентичности? Мобилно гражданство?
Mobile identities? Mobile citizenship?

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the results of a field research conducted with students in 2006, dealing with mass labour migration from Bulgaria towards countries in the EU. The trajectory of the migrants is reconstructed through life-stories from interviews with them and their relatives, as well as participant observations of the journey conducted in the buses taking them to Italy, Austria and Germany. A special emphasis is put on the question how the mobile persons perceive their citizenship and identity. The paradox, having led to this research, is that more freedom of movement produces more submission and the general lowering of citizenship standards. The result seems to be a defensive reaction on the level of the imaginary, a general hardening of identities.

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