The EU and the Symbolic, Territorial, and Institutional Organisation of the Mediterranean as a Global Mobile Space: Moroccan Students'perspective

The projection of Europeanization beyond the EU’s borders provides arenas through which the union strives to gain meaning, actorness and presence internationally. Actually it is a contested, fraught process with important discursive and instrumental dimensions. In this paper, we consider this process from “outside” the EU and specifically draw upon fieldwork conducted in Algeria, Italy, Morocco with civil society, specifically university students. In doing so, we provide alternative non-elite understandings of EU and Mediterranean spaces and offer critical insights into the changing “Europe”–North Africa relationship, as driven by mobile and immobile citizens across shores with a special emphasis on education, the experience of traveling across borders, and exposure to media.