Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia What Lies Beneath the Fear of the Thirteenth Migrant
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia, and Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology.
Radka Klvanová is assistant professor at the Department of Law and Humanities at Mendel University in Brno, Czechia.
Alica Synek?Rétiová is assistant professor of sociology at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia.
Ivana Rapoš Božic is post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia.
Jan Krotký is post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
This is a major work, one that brings together nuanced multilevel research at the empirical level and strikingly new theorizing at the middle range. It is a landmark in the sociology of immigration.
- Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University,
A fascinating, theoretically grounded, and empirically rich answer to questions about why migrants loom so large when they make up such a small percentage of the actual population. An invaluable contribution to how 'migration attitudes' form, why they are so stubbornly intractable, and how they are deeply rooted in specific socio-historical contexts.
- Peggy Levitt, author of <i>Transnational Social Protection: Changing Social Welfare in a World on the Move</i>,
This excellent book brings us closer to a deeper understanding of one of our time's most pressing issues within, as well as beyond, Czech society—the formation of migration attitudes. With nuanced analysis and creative methodology, the authors take the readers into the historical and contextual roles of the landscapes of meaning that shape the boundary makings of the 'other' and the unproblematic 'we.' By utilizing visual, labeling, and media analysis through the lens of critical cultural sociology, this book also advances the cultural sociological theorization of migration studies.
- Anna Lund, Stockholm University,
A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia deals with a highly topical subject. Its findings are valuable, and not only in the context of Central and Eastern Europe. Although much attention is currently being paid to migration attitudes, this book, based on the lens of cultural sociology, is original in many ways. Through the study of symbolic boundaries, boundary work, and cultural repertoires, it offers deeper insights into the formation of migration attitudes, unpacks their various nuances, and situates them within a broader cultural framework.
- Karel Cada, Charles University,
The book features a critical cultural sociological study of attitudes towards migration in Czechia. Based on qualitative research, it looks at the ways the Czech public draws symbolic boundaries between “us” and “them.”
Introduction. A Critical Cultural Sociology of Attitudes toward Migration
Chapter 1. Foreigner, Migrant, Refugee: What Lies Beneath the Labels
Chapter 2. Looking at Images of People Who Cross Borders: Visuality, Emotions, and the Civil Sphere
Chapter 3. Threat, Victim, or Enrichment: Patterns of Securitization in Migration Attitudes
Chapter 4. Migration as Invasion: The Role of Media in Shaping Migration Attitudes
Chapter 5. Going Local with Migration Attitudes: Multiplicity in Hierarchies of Otherness
Chapter 6. Moving Beyond the Fear of the “Thirteenth Migrant”
Appendix. Reflecting Upon Our Research Journey
This provocative new series challenges the established field of migration studies to think beyond its policy-oriented frameworks and to engage with the complex and myriad forms in which the global migration regime is changing in the twenty-first century. It proposes to draw together studies that engage with the current transformation of the politics of migration, and the meaning of ‘migrant’, from the below of grassroots, local, transnational and multi-sited coalitions, projects and activisms. Attuned to the contemporary resurgence of migrant-led and migration-related movements, and anti-racist activism, the series builds on work carried out at the critical margins of migration studies to evaluate the ‘border industrial complex’ and its fall-outs, build a decolonial perspective on global migration flows, and critically reassess the link between (im)migration, citizenship and belonging in the cross-border future.
Series Editors: Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia, and Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology.
Radka Klvanová is assistant professor at the Department of Law and Humanities at Mendel University in Brno, Czechia.
Alica Synek?Rétiová is assistant professor of sociology at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia.
Ivana Rapoš Božic is post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia.
Jan Krotký is post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.