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

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Publikace nespadá pod Pedagogickou fakultu, ale pod Fakultu sociálních studií. Oficiální stránka publikace je na webu muni.cz.
Název česky "Rusové se vracejí" : Symbolické hranice a kulturní trauma v imigraci z bývalého Sovětského svazu do České republiky
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Rok publikování 2019
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Ethnicities
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Fakulta sociálních studií

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www https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1468796817752740
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796817752740
Obor Sociologie, demografie
Klíčová slova Symbolic boundaries; collective memory; cultural trauma; stigma; belonging; 1968
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Popis 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.
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