At the turn of the millennium the state of Europe is fluid and
contested, yet how this affects the everyday lives of European peoples
and the ways they experience the social world they live in remains
largely unexplored. Drawing upon ethnographic information from diverse
European settings, this volume points to the contradictions that the
project of a "Europe without boundaries" involves. In illustrating how
the removal of political boundaries can create other boundaries, the
articles in this volume provide alternatives to recent theorising on
complexity, which takes little account of human agency.