Bypassing the Social Distance : International Catholic
Community, Friendship, and Homemaking among Expatriates in Brno

J 2021

Bypassing the Social Distance : International Catholic Community, Friendship, and Homemaking among Expatriates in Brno

FUJDA, Milan, Michaela ONDRAŠINOVÁ and Miroslav VRZAL

Basic information

Original name

Bypassing the Social Distance : International Catholic Community, Friendship, and Homemaking among Expatriates in Brno

Authors

FUJDA, Milan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Michaela ONDRAŠINOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Miroslav VRZAL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Journal of Religion in Europe, Brill, 2021, 1874-8910

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119840

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748929-20211512

UT WoS

000730221200004

Keywords in English

homemaking; integration; highly skilled migration; expatriates; friendship; Catholicism; community; bridging and bonding social capital

Abstract

V originále

We analyze the role of intimate social ties and community in the processes of homemaking and social integration of highly skilled migrants who are members of the local international Catholic community in Brno, Czech Republic. We use the concepts of bonding and bridging social capital developed by Michael W. Foley and Dean R. Hoge and follow their attention to the effects of the worship communities’ organizational culture on migrants’ integration. In the article, we show that the Catholic community mediates its members’ homemaking efficiently by providing them with rich bonding social capital, generated through close social ties in the community. However, it does not provide them with enough bridging social capital, and their social integration, thus, remains restricted to the company of international fellows. We compare it with the strategies of homemaking used by settling migrants who have integrated more successfully into the Czech social environment.

Links

TL01000465, research and development project

Name: Expats v Jihomoravském kraji: pobyt a potřeby

Investor: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

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FUJDA, Milan, Michaela ONDRAŠINOVÁ and Miroslav VRZAL. Bypassing the Social Distance : International Catholic Community, Friendship, and Homemaking among Expatriates in Brno. Journal of Religion in Europe. Brill, 2021, vol. 14, 1-2, p. 80-105. ISSN 1874-8910. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748929-20211512.

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FUJDA, Milan, Michaela ONDRAŠINOVÁ and Miroslav VRZAL. Bypassing the Social Distance : International Catholic Community, Friendship, and Homemaking among Expatriates in Brno. \textit{Journal of Religion in Europe}. Brill, 2021, vol.~14, 1-2, p.~80-105. ISSN~1874-8910. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748929-20211512.

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