Yasemin Soysal teaches sociology at the University of Essex. Her book, Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1994. She is a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, for the academic year 2001-02.

Recent articles

The plurality of Europe’s nations, cultures and territories make European identity hard to define. This very lack of fixity is an asset, enabling the continent to avoid being blinded by opposition to a symbolic ‘other’. But as closer political association succeeds centuries of national rivalry and heroic narratives, how is the messy ‘European’ story being retold in school textbooks and curricula?