The prior hundred years of Europe are distilled within the reports of the voters of Strasbourg. From the flip of the 20th century until eventually 1945, Europe's ruling notion of nationalism rendered Strasbourg/Straßburg the prize in a tug-of-war among the 2 maximum continental powers, France and Germany. Then, within the fast post-war interval, beliefs for eu harmony arrange a variety of ecu associations, a few based in Strasbourg, that have steadily created supranational Europe. on the finish of the Nineteen Fifties, a 3rd subject matter arises: the large-scale settling in Strasbourg and different such richer, western ecu towns of folks 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 adventure of folks who're embedded in various demeanour in either Strasbourg and of their land of starting place. in line with in-depth, vigorous 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 stories all kinds of compelling insights into problems with identification, race, nationality, tradition, politics, historical past and illustration, giving a distinct and worthy view of what it skill (and has intended during the last century) to be a European.