Identity Cracks of Czechness of Second-Generation Muslims in the Czech Republic: Finding a place of belonging

Date of Publication:

29.07.2024

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https://doi.org/10.62800/NR.2024.2.02

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The article deals with the belonging of the second generation of Muslims to the Czech space. These young people were born in the Czech Republic, they were socialized here, they have Czech citizenship, but the hegemonic discourse of Czech nationality is so specific that they do not always fit into its image. Their parents came to Czechoslovakia, and later to the Czech Republic in the 1970s and 1990s, mostly for study and work reasons from the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa or the (post-)Soviet region. For this reason, the repertoire of their identity politics is also multi-layered and diverse. I ask, then, how they negotiate their identity in relation to Czechness and what practices they use to fulfill it in light of their parents' migration background. I developed the data based on semi-structured interviews.

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Czech identity, Czechism, ethnicity, Islam, Muslims, nationality, second generation

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