Foreigner, migrant, or refugee? How laypeople label those who cross borders

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F23%3A00134015" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/23:00134015 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://academic.oup.com/migration/advance-article/doi/10.1093/migration/mnac035/6782937" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/migration/advance-article/doi/10.1093/migration/mnac035/6782937</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnac035" target="_blank" >10.1093/migration/mnac035</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Foreigner, migrant, or refugee? How laypeople label those who cross borders

Original language description

In this article, we seek to exercise reflexivity in migration research by looking at the symbolic boundary work that sustains laypeople’s understanding and use of specific labels. We do so through a qualitative, cultural sociological investigation of migration attitudes in Czechia. We explore the labels foreigner, migrant, and refugee, commonly used labels in Czech migration discourse. In short, we argue that research participants rely on different grounds for boundary work, informed by available cultural repertoires, when characterizing foreigners, migrants, and refugees. While boundary work related to the label foreigner calls upon criteria of citizenship and perceived cultural closeness, the boundary work concerning the other two labels—migrant and refugee—involves the moral criteria of deservingness. Our study addresses three major shortcomings in migration studies. First, the opinions of laypeople influence public policies and approaches to migration, yet in-depth qualitative studies of migration attitudes are scarce. Second, even though migration attitudes shape the character of the receiving context for people who cross borders, how laypeople engage with labels remains understudied. Finally, we heed the call for a ‘reflexive turn’ in migration studies, arguing that researchers must remain reflexive, not only about labels they use, but also how such labels are understood and used by research participants.

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

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-08605S" target="_blank" >GA20-08605S: The thirteenth immigrant? An in-depth exploration of the public perception of migration in the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Migration Studies

ISSN

2049-5838

e-ISSN

2049-5846

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

218-241

UT code for WoS article

000876552600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85145563192