Identity discourses on East-West borders in Europe - an introduction, Ulrike H. Meinhof, Heidi Armbruster and Craig Rollo; Working identities - key narratives in a former border region in Germany, Heidi Armbruster and Ulrike H. Meinhof; History and stories - identity construction on the Italian-Slovenian border, Augusto Carli, Emidio Sussi and Majda Kaucic-Basa; Shifting borders - spatial constructions of identity in an Austrian/Slovenian border region, Brigitte Hipfl, Anita Bister, Petra Strohmaier and Brigitta Busch; Bordering silence - border narratives from the Austro-Hungarian border, Doris Wastl-Walter, Monika M. Varadi and Friedrich Veider; Traces of German-Czech history in biographical interviews at the border - constructions of identities and the year 1938 in Barenstein-Vejprty, Werner Holly; Urban space and the construction of identity on the German-Polish border, Aleksandra Galasinska, Craig Rollo and Ulrike H. Meinhof.