Re-evaluating the nature of Euroscepticism in border regions: Narratives of Europe in a European election year (Deliverable 3.2: Report on the results of interviews and focus groups)

Abstract

In this report, we present a narrative analysis of our original politician interview and citizen focus group data to investigate how borders are featured and narrated in European election campaigns, and how border region residents respond to border narratives in the broader frame of their perceptions of the European project. We use ‘structured narrative analysis’, whereby we seek out recurring narratives about borders. In this, we include both master narratives that were identified a priori, and narratives that emerge spontaneously from the bottom up. ...