EUROPEAN IDENTIFICATION OF INTRA-EUROPEAN MIGRANTS: THE CASE OF FRANCE, GERMANY, GREAT-BRITAIN, AND SPAIN

The aim of this contribution is to observe how the intra-European migrants envision themselves being European through participation in the labor market. This study tests classical hypotheses among migrants and develops new occupational mobility hypotheses on European identification. In doing so, it uses diagonal reference modeling to account for mobility effects. The mixed results indicate that classical theories of European identification do not account fully for explaining European identification of intra-European migrants. Moreover, the European Union program of free movement of labor has been successful to strengthen European identity of upwardly mobile migrants