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Negotiating Political Identities x book expands sociological understanding of contemporary youth by placing negotiated political identities at its centre.Even more impressively, the study serves to interrogate established theory at a macro-level by delving deeply into the reinforcement of national agendas within an English context, and contrasting it to Germany's prioritization of European agendas.There is a real sense here of a new generation of writing around the institutionally situated national/ethnic self, one which applies not only to European scholarship on immigrant incorporation, but to transatlantic dialogues around the integration of the second generation as well.This challenging text, combining scholarship and accessibility, will appeal to multiple audiences, including academics, policy-makers, and the general reader. Mirtn Mac an ghaill University of BirminghamThe idea for this project dates back to the late 1990s when I was teaching at King Edward VI Aston and Handsworth Schools in Birmingham.There I experienced life in multiethnic inner-city schools for the first time, since I had attended more rural and suburban white schools for my own education.While teaching in these schools, I became more and more interested in different levels of interaction and integration as well as how students from different backgrounds are positioned and position themselves, and decided to study these issues in greater depth.I have worked in five countries since doing my fieldwork for the project, labouring over this manuscript while living in Germany, Britain, Greece, Ireland and the United States.Spending time in each one of these countries has added to my own identity and what it means to be a European or global citizen in the twenty-first century.I have learned so much from listening to all of my respondents in this project and am forever grateful for their insights.