‘We Have Always Been like This’ : The Local Embeddedness of Migration Attitudes

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F23%3A00134127" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/23:00134127 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://sreview.soc.cas.cz/artkey/csr-202303-0004_8216-we-have-always-been-like-this-8217-the-local-embeddedness-of-migration-attitudes.php" target="_blank" >https://sreview.soc.cas.cz/artkey/csr-202303-0004_8216-we-have-always-been-like-this-8217-the-local-embeddedness-of-migration-attitudes.php</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/csr.2023.030" target="_blank" >10.13060/csr.2023.030</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
‘We Have Always Been like This’ : The Local Embeddedness of Migration Attitudes
Original language description
This article contributes to the local turn in migration research. It explores how the city context shapes migration attitudes among residents, resulting in the formation of imagined communities of ‘Locals’ and ‘Others’. Relying on qualitative research methods and cultural sociological theories of cultural armatures of the city, cultural repertoires, and symbolic boundaries, we examine the cases of two Czech cities, Teplice and Vyšší Brod. We find that the specific characteristics of the local history, geography, and demography of the cities give rise to distinct cultural repertoires that shape how their residents view migration and the presence of people with a migratory background in their city. We identify two prevailing cultural repertoires, local cosmopolitanism in Teplice and Czech nativism in Vyšší Brod, which inform both the patterns of boundary work towards residents with a migratory background and their positioning on local hierarchies of otherness. We argue that to understand the role of local context in the formation of migration attitudes, it is not sufficient to study only the characteristics of cities; how these characteristics are made meaningful by the people who live in them should also be considered.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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

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