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In an era cross-cut with various agendas and expressions of national belonging and global awareness, \"the nation\" as a collective reference point and experienced entity stands at the center of complex identity struggles. This book explores how such struggles unfold in practice at a highly symbolic battlefield site in the Danish/German borderland.

Throughout history the North Atlantic archipelagos have projected themselves outwards thanks to travel and the innate capacity of their inhabitants to relate to other peoples. This research aims to reveal their nodal character on the stage of global mobility, using a detailed statistical analysis of their migration trends since the 1960s. To this end, it is necessary to recognise the rhythms of the migration transition and its parallelism with the socio-economic development of the island spaces themselves. In addition, common features can be identified in their recent migration patterns in which a great diversification of origins and destinations predominates, as well as a multiplicity of motivations. With this aim, migration in these archipelagos is interpreted from a temporal and spatial perspective, redefining the historical concept of “Atlanticity,” and allowing to identify the strategic position they play in the geography of human mobility in times of global capitalism.

In the Great Recession, the deep economic downturn of 2008 to 2009, European governments adopted expansionary fiscal policies quickly, and with little apparent controversy. In December 2008, the member states of the European Union agreed on a European Economic Recovery Program, which included discretionary stimulus measures amounting to 1.5 percent of GDP. The program was implemented by national parliaments in the beginning of 2009. In February of that year—when the U.S. Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, containing $787 billion in tax cuts and spending increases over three years—the Bundestag approved a stimulus plan for Europe’s