Publication details
Osm migrujících žen a jejich transnacionální sdílený svět
| Title in English | Eight Women Migrants and Their Shared Transnational World |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/upl/archiv/files/635_07-1%20hamar%20szalo.pdf |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | migration; transnationalism; cultural hybridity; diasporic identity; habitus |
| Description | In considering the symbolic incorporation of migrants at their host societies sociological and anthropological discourses are challenged by the way in which recent migrants do not simply leave their homelands behind but make great efforts to maintain their attachments at distance. In this paper we examine a transnational migrant network of eight highly educated young women from the post-socialist southern Slovakia with a particular attention to the construction of their diasporic identity and shared lifeworld. We interpret the migration of these highly educated persons as a coherent continuation of their life course rather than a rupture in it. In order to understand their recent biographical situation one needs to consider the role that a particular form of habitus plays in their migration. We claim that the experiences of living in a culturally hybrid lifeworld of Czechoslovak Hungarians play an important role in shaping their disposition to live in the dual world of mobile subjects |
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