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.
New Ethnographic Insights into Racialization: Our Team at the Trento Conference
Ivana Rapoš Božič, Nadya Jaworsky, Radka Klvaňová
Our research team members engaged in discussions at the 10th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference in Trento (July 10-12, 2025). Ivana Rapoš Božič and Nadya Jaworsky organized a panel entitled New Ethnographic Perspectives on Racialization Processes. The panel opened a critical and interdisciplinary discussion about novel ethnographic approaches in research on racism and racialization by building on recent theoretical and methodological reflections in the field of ethnic and racial studies, in particular the role of the local context in shaping the understanding of the categories of “race” and “ethnicity.” Ivana Rapoš Božič contributed to the discussion with findings from our project in a presentation called You can’t take it to heart: How Czech Residents from MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa Make Sense of Ethnoracial Othering. Radka Klvaňová presented a paper entitled Going mobile: Methodological reflections on go-along interviews in studying the ethnoracial Othering of immigrants discussing the reflection on the method of go-along interviews conducted among immigrants in the urban space of Brno in the panel Creative/Inventive methods in contemporary ethnographic inquiry.
