Publication details
“You can’t take it to heart”: How Czech residents from MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa make sense of ethnoracial Othering
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The study of migration privileges the perspectives of the “us” in destination societies. Migrants are typically conceived of as objects of study, rather than active producers of knowledge about the society they live in. To challenge this trend, we propose a novel epistemological and methodological approach, the “reverse sociology of migration,” which privileges the voices and perspectives of people with a migratory background. We aim to understand how migrants themselves make sense of their position in the society they live and how they draw boundaries in relation to the native-born population and other groups of migrants. We situate our study in Brno, the second largest city in Czechia, which has recently become an important destination for immigration in Central and Eastern Europe. We conduct qualitative in-depth interviews to uncover the complexity in patterns of boundary work and the processes of constructing migration and different categories of people on the move. Our ultimate goal is to loosen the embrace of a “host society” perspective and to contribute to debates on decolonizing and decentring migration studies by focusing on the agency of the people with a migratory background. |
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