Identity Change and its Consequences

Abstract

This panel deals with identity change against the background of mass migration, nationalism, and transnational spaces, and interrogates the role of national boundaries in explaining an individual’s identity and behaviour under globalization. One of the papers in the panel compares the readiness and responses of the governments in Germany and Luxembourg to the massive influx of refugees in 2015. The paper traces the crisis response and measures coordination efforts in both countries and explains variation. Furthermore, surveys suggest that an increasing number of people across the world identify as global citizens. Against this background, a second paper hypothesized that the formation of transcultural spaces an increase in immigrants in a country could lead to an increase in people identifying as global citizens in that country. Moreover, a further paper in the panel attempts to capture the evolution of national identity in international politics. It identifies various historical stages for the development of national identity—the ‘primordial’ stage, the ‘imagined’ stage, and the ‘matching’ stage, and provides a systematic account for transitions across these stages. The ever-increasing international mobility of people causes national identity to undergo a transition from the second to the third stage and manifesting itself in a different way in the post-Westphalian system.

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