‘The Russians are back’ : Symbolic boundaries and cultural trauma in immigration from the former Soviet Union to the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1468796817752740" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1468796817752740</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796817752740" target="_blank" >10.1177/1468796817752740</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

‘The Russians are back’ : Symbolic boundaries and cultural trauma in immigration from the former Soviet Union to the Czech Republic

Original language description

This study contributes to the literature on migration and the construction of the symbolic boundaries of belonging. It explores the neglected topic of the role of collective memory and, in particular, cultural trauma, in the processes of negotiation of the symbolic boundaries between immigrants and the native-born. It does so by studying the case of post-Cold War immigration from three countries of the former Soviet Union—Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia—to the Czech Republic, focusing on immigrants’ experiences of being assigned responsibility for “1968,” the Warsaw Treaty Troops’ military intervention into Czechoslovakia and its subsequent occupation by the Soviet army. Analysis of the narratives of immigrants about their everyday encounters with Czechs advances the understanding of symbolic boundary-making processes by identifying two types of responses the immigrants employ for contesting the stigma of the perpetrators imposed on them in the Czech immigration context. The first involves “differentiation,” which aims at redrawing the symbolic boundaries between perpetrators and victims. The second response involves “individualization,” in which immigrants completely dissociate from the past acts of violence of the Soviet regime. This study offers insight into the micro-politics of nation-building in Central and Eastern Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50400 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ethnicities

ISSN

1468-7968

e-ISSN

1741-2706

Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

136-155

UT code for WoS article

000456431300007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85060658736