African Diasporic Narratives from the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F23%3A50020620" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/23:50020620 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/bdia/16/3/article-p264_2.xml" target="_blank" >https://brill.com/view/journals/bdia/16/3/article-p264_2.xml</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/09763457-bja10057" target="_blank" >10.1163/09763457-bja10057</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
African Diasporic Narratives from the Czech Republic
Original language description
Studies have addressed the historical trajectories of people of African heritage in the Czech Republic (cr), but there is no comprehensive study of the contemporary lives and identities of African people. Given the increasing number of African people living in the country, research into an emerging African diaspora is imperative. This empirical study emerges as part of a larger project which aims to address this paucity through an interdisciplinary and ethnographic lens. Its primary aim is to develop a detailed and nuanced account of sociopolitical identities among people of African heritagein the cr by focusing on the dynamics of language and race and, to a lesser degree, gender. Theoretically based on intersectionality and drawing from the recently developed framework of ‘raciolinguistics’, this paper provides the first diasporic narratives of African people in the cr who have varying degrees of Czech language fluency and experience diverse forms of racialisation and racism. Individual multiple life trajectories in the cr suggest that African migrants feel caught in a complex matrix of linguistic and racial discrimination but that they have a sense of reasonable safety and security. This highly ambiguous space also shows that, on the one hand, there are instances where Czech language skills have the capacity to mitigate the challenges in racial discourse and racism, but on the other hand there are clear limits to the power of language in the face of racial Othering and racism.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
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
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-19820S" target="_blank" >GA22-19820S: Language and ‘Race’ Identities among Africans and Afro-Czechs in the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
C - Předmět řešení projektu podléhá obchodnímu tajemství (§ 504 Občanského zákoníku), ale název projektu, cíle projektu a u ukončeného nebo zastaveného projektu zhodnocení výsledku řešení projektu (údaje P03, P04, P15, P19, P29, PN8) dodané do CEP, jsou upraveny tak, aby byly zveřejnitelné.
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Diaspora Studies
ISSN
0973-9572
e-ISSN
0976-3457
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
264-286
UT code for WoS article
001109168500005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85171686422