How an Immigrant Buddhist Institution Negotiates Belonging in Poland
The Case of Thiên Phúc Pagoda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3645299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ewa Grabowska (University of Warsaw), Ewa Joanna Grabowska (0000-0002-4556-6927, University of Warsaw), Grażyna Szymańska‐matusiewicz (0000-0003-1480-5187, University of Warsaw, corresponding author), Grażyna Szymańska-Matusiewicz (University of Warsaw) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 432-449 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07256868.2022.2010677 |
| OpenAlex | W4213020212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Migrant religious institutions tend to be focal places of intercultural encounters, serving as spaces for performing national, ethnic and religious identities, as well as, dialoging and negotiating belonging within the majority society. Thiên Phúc, a Vietnamese-operated pagoda functioning in Poland, serves as an important factor in the Vietnamese migrant community affairs, at the same time remaining virtually unknown to a broader Polish public. Drawing on extensive fieldwork study results, we adapt an original perspective of a migrant religious institution as an active agent in negotiating belonging to various social contexts, namely the host society, the Vietnamese migrant community and the social space of Buddhist religious institutions. We point out to coherences and disjunctures between arguments formulated during the search for legitimisation from the diverse sources. We also reflect upon complex ways in which the negotiation strategies are related to Polish public discourse on the Vietnamese community, which tends to form two opposite arguments: one calling for better integration, the other for their isolation and invisibility. Doing so, we shed light on outcomes and limitations of particular strategies of negotiating belonging undertaken by an ‘otherized’ institution in the context of one of the most ethnically and religiously homogeneous societies in Europe
Buddhism · Geography · Identity negotiation · Immigration · Institution · Invisibility · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Vietnamese · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Vietnamese in Poland
Buddhism in Canada
Immigration and the Political Economy of Home
Remaking the State or Creating Civil Society? Vietnamese Migrant Associations in Poland
From Local Integration Toward Ghettoized Community With Transnational Connections
Negotiating Belongings
Negotiating Identity and Belonging through the Invisibility Bargain
Vietnamese in Poland
Gender, Religion, and Migration
Implementing integration in the UK
The Role of Religion in the Origins and Adaptation of Immigrant Groups in the United States
Belonging and Unbelonging from an Intersectional Perspective
Understanding Integration
Migration and diversity in a post-socialist context
Winning, then Losing, the Battle with Globalization
Regrounding the sacred
Introduction
Introduction - Negotiating Belonging
Differentiated embedding
The Religious Varieties of Ethnic Presence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |