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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50400 - Sociology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Ethnicities

ISSN

1468-7968

e-ISSN

1741-2706

Svazek periodika

19

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

136-155

Kód UT WoS článku

000456431300007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85060658736