Cultural Sociology East & West; Yale University: September 15-17, 2023
Nadya Jaworsky presented her work at the International Conference on the Cultural Sociology of East and West:
"Migration studies has, of late, become much more reflexive. A recent (2023) issue of the journal Sociological Forum has published a special issue on “decolonizing” the field. The authors variously suggest different forms of paradigm shifts, which, besides decolonizing, include decentering or adopting a Du Boisian approach that takes race seriously. My goal is to bring these perspectives into conversation with cultural sociology, to explore the ways in which studying meaning-making processes and hermeneutically reconstructing cultural structures can help understand migration-related phenomena. In particular, I argue that the analytical tool of symbolic boundaries represents a useful common language and a bridge of sorts. To illuminate the possibilities, I provide empirical examples from a research study on attitudes toward migration in Czechia, a country that presents a compelling analytical puzzle: there are few 'migrants' yet the issue of migration looms large on political and public agendas."
Nadya Jaworsky
The full program and all abstracts can be found HERE.
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.
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.