The previous hundred years of Europe are distilled within the reports of the voters of Strasbourg. From the flip of the 20 th century until eventually 1945, Europe's ruling thought of nationalism rendered Strasbourg/Straβburg the prize in a tug-of-war among the 2 maximum continental powers, France and Germany. Then, within the quick post-war interval, beliefs for ecu solidarity organize quite a few ecu associations, a few centered in Strasbourg, that have steadily created supranational Europe. on the finish of the Fifties, a 3rd subject matter arises: the large-scale settling in Strasbourg and different such richer, western eu towns of people from poorer lands, often ex-colonial territories, whose visual appeal and cultural practices render them primarily "different" to neighborhood eyes: expressions of racism thereby jostle with professions of multiculturalism. Now within the globalisation period, the problem of "immigration" has broadened but extra into transnationalism: the event of individuals who're embedded in various demeanour in either Strasbourg and of their land of origin.

Based on in-depth, energetic interviews with eighty males and eighty ladies starting from one zero one to twenty years, and from worldwide (France, Germany, Alsace-Lorraine, Portugal, Italy, ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Cameroon, and Afghanistan among different countries), the writer attracts out of those compelling tales every type of compelling insights into problems with id, race, nationality, tradition, politics, background and illustration, giving a distinct and invaluable view of what it ability (and has intended during the last century) to be a European.