Nejasné loajality: způsoby přináležitosti a nepatření migrantů v transnacionálních sociálních polích

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Title in English Uncertain Loyalties. Ways of Belonging and Non-belonging of the Migrants in Transnational Social Fields
Authors

KLVAŇOVÁ Radka

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sociální studia
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Field Sociology, demography
Keywords citizenship;migration;inclusion/exclusion of migrants;transnationalism;translocational positionality
Description The concepts of inclusion and integration are significant parts of both academic and public discourses on migration. These terms and their utilization are rooted in the image of migration as a permanent unidirectional movement between territorially bounded nation state societies. The transnational perspective points to a variety of migrants social worlds transcending the borders of nation states and plurality of migrant belongings and it challenges such a conceptualization of inclusion/exclusion of migrating individuals and groups. The paper discusses the re-conceptualization of the process of inclusion/exclusion of migrants in transnational social fields. It brings attention to the ways of belonging and non-belonging of the migrants to the multiple communities both here and there and the ways their belongings are contested and transformed. It argues that the frame of belonging is an important empirical question to avoid normative assumptions of migrants integration into the receiving nation state container society. Moreover, the transnational perspective raises the question of the link between behavioural participation of the migrants in various social systems both here and there and felt belonging to various civic communities.
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