How do we use Others to shape our own national identities?

How do Others factor into how we identify our own national identities? We asked Anna Triandafyllidou of the European University Institute about our relational feeling to the Significant Others and how migrants and Muslims fit into the discussion.

This video was produced by Migration Matters e.V. and is part of “Newcomers and Nationalism: Exploring the Challenges of Belonging in Europe,” an interactive open online course that invites refugees and non-refugee students from all over Europe and the Southern Mediterranean to learn together in an interactive, online classroom as part of the Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange project.

This video has been produced under a contract with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, financed by the European Union’s budget. The opinions expressed are those of the contractor and do not represent the contracting authority’s official position.

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Production Credits

Editorial & production: Sophia Burton, Bernadette Klausberger, Kelly Miller
Camera & sound: Julian van Dieken
Edited by: Karoline Schulz
Graphics by: Anna van Odijk
Music by: Justin Wright
Translations by: Elisabeth Roura, Judith Garcia
Additional research by: Gemma Hennessey
Produced by: Migration Matters e.V. 2018