11 Apr How immigrants find their place in Czech society A new study shows how different groups of immigrants in Czechia use distinct cultural strategies to negotiate their place in society—and why some succeed more than others.
14 Jul 2025 Nadya Jaworsky Presented at the IMISCOE 2025 Conference in Paris At the 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference (1–4 July 2025), Nadya Jaworsky presented preliminary findings from our project. Her talk, held on July 2, explored the cultural sociological dimensions of migration discourses in Czechia in a presentation titled Geopolitical imaginaries of migration in Czechia: A critical cultural sociological decentering of migration studies.
14 Jul 2025 New Ethnographic Insights into Racialization: Our Team at the Trento Conference Our researchers presented findings and methodological reflections on ethnoracial othering at the 10th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference in Trento, contributing to panels on racialization and inventive methods in ethnography.
20 Nov 2024 Exploring Migration and Otherness: Our Research Presented on Global Stages Radka Klvaňová showcased our latest findings at the 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference and the 16th ESA Conference, engaging with international scholars on migration, boundary-making, and hierarchies of Otherness.
11 Nov 2024 CEEISA-ISA International Conference 2024: Ivana Rapoš Božič Introduces a New Perspective on Migration in Brno At the CEEISA-ISA International Conference 2024, held from June 18-21 at the University of Rijeka in Croatia, Ivana Rapoš Božič presented a pioneering approach to migration research centered on the perspectives of migrants themselves. In her talk...
7 Nov 2024 2024 ASA Annual Meeting: Our Team Explores New Horizons in Decolonizing Migration Studies At the 2024 ASA Annual Meeting held from August 9-13 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, our team presented fresh insights into the decolonization of migration studies. During a panel session on August 13...
4 Nov 2024 IRIS International Conference 2024: Our Team Unveils Research on Racialization and Othering in Czechia's New Immigration Landscape At the IRIS International Conference held from September 4-6, 2024, themed “Bordering Society: Understanding and Reimagining Migration, Displacement, and Diversity in an Age of Rapid Transformations,” our team, led by Nadya Jaworsky from Masaryk University, presented...
19 Dec 2023 “You can’t take it to heart”: Responding to Racialization and Othering in the Czech Civil Sphere. Questions of who belongs and who doesn’t are often negotiated in the civil sphere. Within the civil spheres of Western democracies, processes of racialization and Othering abound, excluding those considered anticivil outsiders...
14 Dec 2023 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference MIGRATION AND INEQUALITIES. In search of answers and solutions Residents with a migratory background have long faced a difficult (even if unspoken) question: are you “people like us”? The “us” is taken-for-granted, understood through terms like “majority society,” “mainstream society,” and “host society.”...
25 Sep 2023 Decolonizing, decentering, and deracializing: A critical cultural sociology of migration Nadia Jaworsky presented their work "Decolonizing, decentering, and deracializing: A critical cultural sociology of migration" at an international conference at Yale University.