![Cover for: Lost in Europe](https://www.eurozine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1ec3f956c006962203a2352aeeabbce8.jpg)
‘It was as if the notoriously elusive European identity had finally come into existence, but as a nightmarish vision.’ Claudia Ciobanu, a Romanian living in Poland, describes the dilemmas and mixed feelings of ‘the voluntary migrant’, caught between revulsion at xenophobia and sympathy for the ‘losers of transition’.