I am from Vietnam... I was born in Czech Republic

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva and Adéla SOURALOVÁ. I am from Vietnam... I was born in Czech Republic. In 2nd Joint Biennial CASA – SASA Conference. OF COSMOPOLITANISM AND COSMOLOGIES. 2011.

Basic information

• Original name: I am from Vietnam... I was born in Czech Republic
• Name in Czech: Jsem z VIetnamu... narodila jsem se v České republice
• Name (in English): I am from Vietnam... I was born in Czech Republic
• Authors: ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Adéla SOURALOVÁ (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: 2nd Joint Biennial CASA – SASA Conference. OF COSMOPOLITANISM AND COSMOLOGIES, 2011.

Other information

• Original language: Czech
• Type of outcome: Conference abstract
• Field of Study: Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/11:00074556
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Keywords (in Czech): přináležení domoviny Vietnamci kosmopolitanismus
• Keywords in English: belonging homelands Vietnamese cosmopolitanism

Abstract

Příspěvek je založen na analýze dat z výzkumu vietnamských rodin a jejich českých chův prostřednictvím konceptu kosmopolitanismu. Naši pozornost zaměřujeme na ideu domoviny jako součást životních příběhů, kde nacionální, etnická a státní přináležitost stejně tak jako přináležitost k rodinné historii a imaginárním domovinám hrají důležitou roli. Použiváme texty Salmana Rushdieho (imaginární domoviny), Hannah Arendt a ostatních k porozumění post-migrační strategie a zkušenosti s ideou občanství a různým typům domovin.

Abstract (in English)

The paper is based on the data from the research on Vietnamese families and their Czech nannies in the Czech Republic and it shows how we think about the idea of cosmopolitanism. We will focus on the images of homeland as the part of the life stories in which the national, ethnic or state belonging as well as belonging to the family history and imaginary homeland play the crucial role. According to the oi cial statistics, there are around 61 thousand Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic with the high average of children in the population. Some Vietnamese families hire Czech women for caring of their kids. We use the ideas of Diogenes, Hannah Arendt and Salman Rushdie as the interpretative tool for preliminary understanding of the situation in these families. We will demonstrate how the concept of cosmopolitanism may help us to understand the situation of people with in-between identity whose biographies cross the boundaries of one state/nationality. By focusing on the process of “wanting the citizenship” and renegotiation of the homeland as the part of post-migratory experience, we will point out the totalizing and ideological aspects of both citizenship and homeland.