Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship. Glocalization and ...

“what new norms, institutions, structures and policies of citizenship do we need to
reduce/eliminate the misalignments”
3. Further research recommendations
Confronting these new research questions, the way further should include the diversity
analyses of the European society and the European public sphere, as Europe is now
unequivocally a diverse society. In this project, one important parameter in realization of
togetherness in diverse societies has been found to be the phenomenon “co-other”,
signifying individuals with a high degree of mobility of mind between different references
of identification. Therefore, any further research on the development of the European
diverse society should incorporate the mobility-of-mind dimension into the analysis.
Furthermore, the class and demographic dimensions of citizenship should also be
systematically incorporated into a future research in these lines.
Glocalmig is an exploratory project, and its findings relate primarily to “the new” in
Europe and the possible impact of “the new” in Europe. The new in Europe is the fading
and reshaping of borders and boundaries, the possibility of unlimited spatial mobility, and
the increasing mobility of minds. These are also about the features of “glocal spaces”,
which can be seen as the prototypes of a future European diverse society. Therefore, we
recommend the European Commission to focus more on the European glocal spaces in
order to increase the knowledge about how a diverse society and a European public
sphere is possible, how unity/togetherness in diversity can be achieved, and how a
diverse society can create and manage its own politics without deconstructing itself.
This requires collaborative research actions at the European level with inclusion of all the
EU-member and candidate states. In addition to the type of qualitative work done in
Glocalmig, a comprehensive survey is also required to obtain results with high level of
reliability and validity in the whole Europe.
4. European added value
Glocalmig is primarily a qualitatively oriented research project. Its design comprises
participant observation, structured, semi-structured and unstructured interviews, data
collection from documents using vernaculars, etc. It requires a high level of contextsensitivity.
Therefore, conducting the Glocalmig research activities at the European level
was the only way of achieving the scientific objectives of this project.
From the design of research tools and theory building to the data-collection and analysis
activities, all stages of the project required an in-depth knowledge of the fieldwork sites,
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