Radka Klvaňová
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 150376 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Radka Klvaňová |
| NOMBRES | Radka |
| APELLIDO | Klvaňová |
| FIRMA | KLVAŇOVÁ R |
| AFILIACIONES | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6075-6115 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
‘I’d Never Thought I Would Live in the Czech Republic’
In this article, we examine how sub-Saharan African migrants navigate geopolitical imaginaries when making sense of migration to Czechia as an unlikely destination. We employ theories of everyday geopolitics to unpack how migrants from the Global South actively produce European geopolitical space. Drawing on 16 semi-structured and go-along interviews conducted in Brno, we show that immigrants’ pre-migratory imaginaries position Czechia as a vague…
“Sticking out” as ethnoracial others
In this article, our aim is to advance critical discussion about the analytical utility of the concept of “visible minorities” across demographic and socio-political contexts in which “non-whites” have a small numerical presence. Our analysis is based on 22 in-depth interviews and 10 go-alongs with migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East/North Africa, whose presence in the Czech city of Brno represents a relatively new phenomenon. To…
Privileged, ambivalent, or contested? How cultural repertoires facilitate different forms of belonging among immigrants in Czechia
In this article, we apply an interpretive, cultural sociological analysis to thirty semi-structured comprehensive interviews with immigrants from Slovakia, Vietnam, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in Czechia. We identify three distinct cultural repertoires that facilitate different forms of hierarchically ordered belonging: (1) the legacy of Czechoslovakia and the privileged belonging of Slovak immigrants based on ethnonational…
You Can't Take it to Heart
This study explores how immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and sub-Saharan Africa living in Czechia, a new immigrant destination in Central Europe, make sense of their experiences with ethnoracial Othering. Building on comprehensive interviews with 23 research participants and utilizing the interpretive meaning-centered approach of cultural sociology, we explore how they make sense of their experiences in the light of their i…
‘I always felt I have something I must do in my life’
This article discusses the potential of bringing biographical and cultural sociology together in the analysis of the political lives of refugee non-citizens. Our analysis is based on empirical research conducted in two regions outside the capital areas of Austria and Czechia. The conceptual focus is on modes of political participation and if and how they shift during the migration experience. To explore the political lives of refugee non-citizens…
Synergy or disparity? Czech experts' insights on migration and development policies
This article discusses the promotion of policy coherence of migration and development policies that have figured high on the agenda of international organizations and the European Union but have been hardly explored in the context of Central and Eastern Europe. Based on in‐depth interviews with 40 Czech experts on migration and development, we identified three key contradictions: (i) The increasing prominence of a security perspective on both mig…
Bibliographie sélective
notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
We Have Always Been like This
This article contributes to the local turn in migration research. It explores how the city context shapes migration attitudes among residents, resulting in the formation of imagined communities of ‘Locals’ and ‘Others’. Relying on qualitative research methods and cultural sociological theories of cultural armatures of the city, cultural repertoires, and symbolic boundaries, we examine the cases of two Czech cities, Teplice and Vyšší Brod. We find…
Foreigner, migrant, or refugee? How laypeople label those who cross borders
In this article, we seek to exercise reflexivity in migration research by looking at the symbolic boundary work that sustains laypeople’s understanding and use of specific labels. We do so through a qualitative, cultural sociological investigation of migration attitudes in Czechia. We explore the labels foreigner, migrant, and refugee, commonly used labels in Czech migration discourse. In short, we argue that research participants rely on differe…
Shifting categories, changing attitudes
Considerable research exists that examines attitudes toward migrants. Most studies are quantitative, relying on surveys or survey experiments, but a growing body of literature explores such attitudes from a qualitative perspective. At the same time, the study of symbolic boundaries and how people use cultural repertoires of meanings to draw distinctions between “us” and “them” is increasing. This review looks at research, both quantitative and qu…
Contemporary Czech migration policy
This paper offers an analysis of the Czech migration policy since the so‐called European Union (EU) migration crisis in 2015 and its key instruments when it comes to migrant workers from third (non‐EU) countries. On the basis of semi‐structured interviews with 80 experts on various aspects of migration policymaking, we identified three key features of Czech migration policymaking: (i) perception of migration as a threat, (ii) orientation on tempo…
Strengths and Weaknesses of Canadian Express Entry System
This article offers an analysis of the first four years of functioning of Express Entry, a new on-line application management system to select skilled entrants for Canada's key economic immigration programs leading to permanent residence. Based on interviews with 20 experts on Canadian immigration policies, we identified a number of strengths and weaknesses of the Canadian Express Entry system related to four areas: immigration policy making, pro…
The Russians are back
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 Ru…
Moving Through Social Networks
This paper brings attention to the role of social networks in the migration of asylum seekers and explores how the embeddedness of the migrants in social networks both facilitates and constrains their mobility in different phases of the migration process. It reconstructs the migration paths of eight Armenian migrant families who arrived in the Czech Republic as asylum seekers during the 1990s and the beginning of the twenty‐first century. By exam…
Moving Through Social Networks
This paper brings attention to the role of social networks in the migration of asylum seekers and explores how the embeddedness of the migrants in social networks both facilitates and constrains their mobility in different phases of the migration process. It reconstructs the migration paths of eight Armenian migrant families who arrived in the Czech Republic as asylum seekers during the 1990s and the beginning of the twenty‐first century. By exam…
Foreigner, migrant, or refugee? How laypeople label those who cross borders
In this article, we seek to exercise reflexivity in migration research by looking at the symbolic boundary work that sustains laypeople’s understanding and use of specific labels. We do so through a qualitative, cultural sociological investigation of migration attitudes in Czechia. We explore the labels foreigner, migrant, and refugee, commonly used labels in Czech migration discourse. In short, we argue that research participants rely on differe…
Shifting categories, changing attitudes
Considerable research exists that examines attitudes toward migrants. Most studies are quantitative, relying on surveys or survey experiments, but a growing body of literature explores such attitudes from a qualitative perspective. At the same time, the study of symbolic boundaries and how people use cultural repertoires of meanings to draw distinctions between “us” and “them” is increasing. This review looks at research, both quantitative and qu…
The Russians are back
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 Ru…
We Have Always Been like This
This article contributes to the local turn in migration research. It explores how the city context shapes migration attitudes among residents, resulting in the formation of imagined communities of ‘Locals’ and ‘Others’. Relying on qualitative research methods and cultural sociological theories of cultural armatures of the city, cultural repertoires, and symbolic boundaries, we examine the cases of two Czech cities, Teplice and Vyšší Brod. We find…
Contemporary Czech migration policy
This paper offers an analysis of the Czech migration policy since the so‐called European Union (EU) migration crisis in 2015 and its key instruments when it comes to migrant workers from third (non‐EU) countries. On the basis of semi‐structured interviews with 80 experts on various aspects of migration policymaking, we identified three key features of Czech migration policymaking: (i) perception of migration as a threat, (ii) orientation on tempo…
Strengths and Weaknesses of Canadian Express Entry System
This article offers an analysis of the first four years of functioning of Express Entry, a new on-line application management system to select skilled entrants for Canada's key economic immigration programs leading to permanent residence. Based on interviews with 20 experts on Canadian immigration policies, we identified a number of strengths and weaknesses of the Canadian Express Entry system related to four areas: immigration policy making, pro…
You Can't Take it to Heart
This study explores how immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and sub-Saharan Africa living in Czechia, a new immigrant destination in Central Europe, make sense of their experiences with ethnoracial Othering. Building on comprehensive interviews with 23 research participants and utilizing the interpretive meaning-centered approach of cultural sociology, we explore how they make sense of their experiences in the light of their i…
Synergy or disparity? Czech experts' insights on migration and development policies
This article discusses the promotion of policy coherence of migration and development policies that have figured high on the agenda of international organizations and the European Union but have been hardly explored in the context of Central and Eastern Europe. Based on in‐depth interviews with 40 Czech experts on migration and development, we identified three key contradictions: (i) The increasing prominence of a security perspective on both mig…
Moving Through Social Networks
This paper brings attention to the role of social networks in the migration of asylum seekers and explores how the embeddedness of the migrants in social networks both facilitates and constrains their mobility in different phases of the migration process. It reconstructs the migration paths of eight Armenian migrant families who arrived in the Czech Republic as asylum seekers during the 1990s and the beginning of the twenty‐first century. By exam…
The Russians are back
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 Ru…
Strengths and Weaknesses of Canadian Express Entry System
This article offers an analysis of the first four years of functioning of Express Entry, a new on-line application management system to select skilled entrants for Canada's key economic immigration programs leading to permanent residence. Based on interviews with 20 experts on Canadian immigration policies, we identified a number of strengths and weaknesses of the Canadian Express Entry system related to four areas: immigration policy making, pro…
Shifting categories, changing attitudes
Considerable research exists that examines attitudes toward migrants. Most studies are quantitative, relying on surveys or survey experiments, but a growing body of literature explores such attitudes from a qualitative perspective. At the same time, the study of symbolic boundaries and how people use cultural repertoires of meanings to draw distinctions between “us” and “them” is increasing. This review looks at research, both quantitative and qu…
Contemporary Czech migration policy
This paper offers an analysis of the Czech migration policy since the so‐called European Union (EU) migration crisis in 2015 and its key instruments when it comes to migrant workers from third (non‐EU) countries. On the basis of semi‐structured interviews with 80 experts on various aspects of migration policymaking, we identified three key features of Czech migration policymaking: (i) perception of migration as a threat, (ii) orientation on tempo…
Foreigner, migrant, or refugee? How laypeople label those who cross borders
In this article, we seek to exercise reflexivity in migration research by looking at the symbolic boundary work that sustains laypeople’s understanding and use of specific labels. We do so through a qualitative, cultural sociological investigation of migration attitudes in Czechia. We explore the labels foreigner, migrant, and refugee, commonly used labels in Czech migration discourse. In short, we argue that research participants rely on differe…
Bibliographie sélective
notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
We Have Always Been like This
This article contributes to the local turn in migration research. It explores how the city context shapes migration attitudes among residents, resulting in the formation of imagined communities of ‘Locals’ and ‘Others’. Relying on qualitative research methods and cultural sociological theories of cultural armatures of the city, cultural repertoires, and symbolic boundaries, we examine the cases of two Czech cities, Teplice and Vyšší Brod. We find…
‘I always felt I have something I must do in my life’
This article discusses the potential of bringing biographical and cultural sociology together in the analysis of the political lives of refugee non-citizens. Our analysis is based on empirical research conducted in two regions outside the capital areas of Austria and Czechia. The conceptual focus is on modes of political participation and if and how they shift during the migration experience. To explore the political lives of refugee non-citizens…
Synergy or disparity? Czech experts' insights on migration and development policies
This article discusses the promotion of policy coherence of migration and development policies that have figured high on the agenda of international organizations and the European Union but have been hardly explored in the context of Central and Eastern Europe. Based on in‐depth interviews with 40 Czech experts on migration and development, we identified three key contradictions: (i) The increasing prominence of a security perspective on both mig…
You Can't Take it to Heart
This study explores how immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and sub-Saharan Africa living in Czechia, a new immigrant destination in Central Europe, make sense of their experiences with ethnoracial Othering. Building on comprehensive interviews with 23 research participants and utilizing the interpretive meaning-centered approach of cultural sociology, we explore how they make sense of their experiences in the light of their i…
‘I’d Never Thought I Would Live in the Czech Republic’
In this article, we examine how sub-Saharan African migrants navigate geopolitical imaginaries when making sense of migration to Czechia as an unlikely destination. We employ theories of everyday geopolitics to unpack how migrants from the Global South actively produce European geopolitical space. Drawing on 16 semi-structured and go-along interviews conducted in Brno, we show that immigrants’ pre-migratory imaginaries position Czechia as a vague…
“Sticking out” as ethnoracial others
In this article, our aim is to advance critical discussion about the analytical utility of the concept of “visible minorities” across demographic and socio-political contexts in which “non-whites” have a small numerical presence. Our analysis is based on 22 in-depth interviews and 10 go-alongs with migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East/North Africa, whose presence in the Czech city of Brno represents a relatively new phenomenon. To…
Privileged, ambivalent, or contested? How cultural repertoires facilitate different forms of belonging among immigrants in Czechia
In this article, we apply an interpretive, cultural sociological analysis to thirty semi-structured comprehensive interviews with immigrants from Slovakia, Vietnam, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in Czechia. We identify three distinct cultural repertoires that facilitate different forms of hierarchically ordered belonging: (1) the legacy of Czechoslovakia and the privileged belonging of Slovak immigrants based on ethnonational…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (10 obras) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (7 obras) · Immigration (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Social science (5 obras) · Context (archaeology (4 obras) · Czech (4 obras)