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The second generation of Muslims, coping with "otherness"

Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2021

Abstract

The paper focuses on identities construction of the second generation of Muslims in the Czech Republic. The second-generation Muslims move between several cultural frameworks, transnational fields, located in the space in-between (Levitt 2009).

They negotiate their identity situationally and must cope with their parents' country of origin, ethnicity and national identity. In the interviews of second-generation Muslims, I would therefore like to show how these young people with a migratory experience treat ethnicity when reporting on their otherness, what strategies they apply when negotiating key social identities, what strategies they choose to be accepted by society.

These are data that I created based on semi-structured interviews. These are the statements of young Muslims, in which they reflect situations where, for example, they were confronted by their surroundings with their ethnic identity or other social identities.