The dynamics of social identities : coping with Otherness, Strategies Employed and the Czechness of Second Generation Muslims in the Czech Republic The dynamics of social identities: Coping with Otherness, Strategies Employed and the Czechness of Second Generation Muslims in the Czech Republic
Abstract
The paper focuses on the construction of identities of the second generation of Muslims in the Czech Republic. Their socialization took place in the context of a Muslim family, they got to know the country of origin of their parents vicariously, but they grew up primarily in the context of the Czech environment.
Second-generation Muslims thus move between multiple cultural frameworks, transnational fields, they are in the space between. They negotiate their identity situationally and have to come to terms with their relationship to the country of origin of their parents, with ethnicity and national identity, with Czechness.
Therefore, I would like to use the testimonies of second-generation Muslims to show how these young people with migration experience deal with ethnicity when they refer to their otherness, what strategies they use to negotiate key social identities, and what strategies they choose to be accepted by society. This is data that I generated from semi-structured interviews.