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

KLVAŇOVÁ, Radka

Basic information

Original name

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

Name in Czech

"Rusové se vracejí" : Symbolické hranice a kulturní trauma v imigraci z bývalého Sovětského svazu do České republiky

Authors

KLVAŇOVÁ, Radka (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Ethnicities, SAGE Publications, 2019, 1468-7968

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50400 5.4 Sociology

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.295

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/19:00108782

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

UT WoS

000456431300007

Keywords (in Czech)

symbolické hranice; kolektivní paměť; kulturní trauma; stigma; přináležení; 1968

Keywords in English

Symbolic boundaries; collective memory; cultural trauma; stigma; belonging; 1968

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 28/1/2020 08:45, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Abstract

V originále

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.

Links

MUNI/A/1068/2018, interní kód MU
Name: Migration and Social Inequality: Cultural Sociological Perspectives (Acronym: MIGSI)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

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