‘A brother is more than a neighbour’ : Symbolic boundary work in Czech pro-migration discourse
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23254823.2021.1942115" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23254823.2021.1942115</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2021.1942115" target="_blank" >10.1080/23254823.2021.1942115</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
‘A brother is more than a neighbour’ : Symbolic boundary work in Czech pro-migration discourse
Original language description
Since 2015, the latest so-called migration crisis has become a major discursive topic in the EU, even in countries like Czechia, which have not received many migrants, refugees, or asylum seekers. While researchers have looked at anti-migration discourses in the country, highlighting the ways in which symbolic boundaries around migrants are brightened, there exists a gap in looking at the other side, namely, how migrant rights advocates legitimate the potential acceptance of migrants, refugees, or asylum seekers. In this article, we adopt a cultural sociological approach to explore how two Czech initiatives to accept refugees, including Syrian orphans, variously blur and solidify symbolic boundaries. Our findings show that the migrant rights advocates involved in these two initiatives, who gained the attention of decision makers, follow mainstream discursive narratives, legitimating the acceptance of refugees based on similar arguments and symbols (both religious and security based) as those instrumentalised by the opponents of migration.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
ISSN
2325-4823
e-ISSN
2325-4815
Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
329-354
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85109991172