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Decolonizing, decentering, and deracializing: A critical cultural sociology of migration

JAWORSKY, Bernadette Nadya

Basic information

Original name

Decolonizing, decentering, and deracializing: A critical cultural sociology of migration

Authors

Edition

Cultural Sociology East & West, 2023

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50401 Sociology

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

decoloniality, migration studies, cultural sociology
Změněno: 6/10/2023 11:41, prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Migration studies has, of late, become much more reflexive. A recent (2023) issue of the journal Sociological Forum has published a special issue on “decolonizing” the field. The authors variously suggest different forms of paradigm shifts, which, besides decolonizing, include decentering or adopting a Du Boisian approach that takes race seriously. My goal is to bring these perspectives into conversation with cultural sociology, to explore the ways in which studying meaning-making processes and hermeneutically reconstructing cultural structures can help understand migration-related phenomena. In particular, I argue that the analytical tool of symbolic boundaries represents a useful common language and a bridge of sorts. To illuminate the possibilities, I provide empirical examples from a research study on attitudes toward migration in Czechia, a country that presents a compelling analytical puzzle: there are few “migrants” yet the issue of migration looms large on political and public agendas.

Links

GA23-05449S, research and development project
Name: Lidé jako my? Reverzní sociologie migrace v České republice
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, People Like Us? A Reverse Sociology of Migration in Czechia