Abstract
The second generation of migrants has fewer ties to the country of origin of their parents, yet they experience a certain form of otherness. The second generation usually uses all the possibilities of socialization (schools, streets, media) in the receiving country, at the same time it is socialized by its own family in the social field of its parents' country of origin.
In contrast to the children of the majority society, the children of migrants have internationalized values, practices (actions) and mediated the social contact of their parents' country of origin. These children cannot fully identify with their parents' country of origin, and at the same time, their sense of belonging may not be entirely with the host country.
A certain straddle in the identity of second-generation migrants overshadows their unique identity over both countries. The children on whom I describe the transnational identity are Prague children of migrants from different countries of origin, who use English as a lingua franca, children meet together in Prague in the international community, in different places, regularly for organized extracurricular activities.
A common feature is their transnational identity, their otherness towards the majority that meets and fulfils it in this society.