ABSTRACT
This study has shown the complexity and multiplicity of identities of location, and how young people in particular societies construct themselves in terms of identification with a region, a country or Europe. I have drawn from the conversations of many of the young people in the 15 countries I visited, presenting a range of the constructions. Of the 974 young people I talked to, in 159 focus groups, some 540 young people have been directly quoted, with snatches of conversations from 147 of the groups. I had more female than male participants, and have used proportionally more female voices; I find I have tended to use proportionally rather more older voices than younger, but not to the extent that I think I have silenced or omitted significantly differing accounts. The selection was intended to ref lect the diversity of constructions: this degree of representation was not deliberate, and calculated only when the analysis was complete.
