SOURALOVÁ, Adéla. Czech Nannies as Educators and Teachers for Vietnamese Second Generation Immigrant Children in the Czech Republic. In Tomorrow People Organization. Belgrade International Conference on Education 14-16 November 2013. 1st ed. Belgrade, Serbia: Tomorrow People Organization, 2013, p. 55-64. ISBN 978-86-87043-19-0.
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Original name Czech Nannies as Educators and Teachers for Vietnamese Second Generation Immigrant Children in the Czech Republic
Authors SOURALOVÁ, Adéla (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition 1. vyd. Belgrade, Serbia, Belgrade International Conference on Education 14-16 November 2013, p. 55-64, 10 pp. 2013.
Publisher Tomorrow People Organization
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
Country of publisher Serbia
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form storage medium (CD, DVD, flash disk)
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14230/13:00066510
Organization unit Faculty of Social Studies
ISBN 978-86-87043-19-0
Keywords (in Czech) druhá generace migrantů péče chůvy
Keywords in English second generation immigrants caregiving nannies
Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D., učo 144154. Changed: 14/11/2013 12:52.
Abstract
Many children of Vietnamese immigrant parents living in the Czech Republic are brought up by Czech nannies. Their first generation immigrant parents look for Czech nannies to take care of their children while they are working, and to equip children with knowledge that they themselves cannot provide them (language skills, transmission of cultural memory, etc.). Vietnamese immigrants are the third-largest immigrant group in the Czech Republic. In comparison with other immigrant groups and even the majority population, there is a higher share of children under 15 years of age. And, in comparison with other immigrant children, Vietnamese children are highly successful in the educational process; they tend to be fluent in the Czech language and linguistically integrated into the majority since early childhood, and achieve the best positions in universities in early adulthood. This paper is based on 50 in-depth interviews with children (20 second and 1.5 generation immigrant children between 16 and 25 years old), nannies (15) and mothers (15). The aim of this paper is to look at how parents, nannies, and children conceptualize the role of nanny in children’s lives, with the accent put on their educational role. I intend here to analyse the multiple and changing roles of nannies at different stages of children’s childhood/life (from new-born babies to pupils at primary schools). In doing so, the paper not only uses an empirical data from a particular case study, but it also elaborates on the conceptualization of caregiving as entailing not only taking care of a child, but also upbringing, education, and teaching. The paper shows the essential link between caregiving, education and integration, as acknowledged in the interviews. The paper was written with the support of the Czech Science Foundation, under the research project “Educational strategies of migrants and ethnic minority youth“ (P404/12/1487).
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GAP404/12/1487, research and development projectName: Vzdělávací strategie dětí migrantů a dětí z etnických menšin (Acronym: MOPED)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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