ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...9 // INTRODUCTION ...11 // Stigma, symbolic boundaries and the everyday politics of belonging ...12 // The Brother of the Other: Immigrants from Belarus, Ukraine and Russia in the Czech Republic ...15 // Negotiation of stigma and symbolic boundaries in narrative interviews ...18 // Outline of the book ...23 // CHAPTER 1 // CONTEXTUALIZING POST-1989 MIGRATION // FROM BELARUS, RUSSIA AND UKRAINE TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC ...25 // The Czech Republic as an immigration country? ...28 // The context of reception for immigrants // in the Czech Republic: Scrutinizing migration research.32 // The formation of research on migration // in the Czech Republic ...33 // Migration as a constitutive element of post-1989 changes: Towards a natural order of migration and diversity ...36 // Framing the “integration of migrants”: From (unnatural) homogeneity to (risky) diversity ...38 // THE BROTHER OF IHE OTHER // Immigration from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine // to the Czech Republic ...42 // Research on migration from Belarus, Ukraine // and Russia to the Czech Republic ...44 // Exploring migration trajectories from Belarus, Ukraine // and Russia to Czechia ...4? // CHAPTER 2 // NEGOTIATING IMMIGRANT STIGMA: PERFORMING ALTERNATIVE VISIBILITIES ...59 // Experiencing migrancy: Undesirable visibility ...61 // Representation of the immigration context n the narrative interviews ...65 // Other migrants, migrants others: Socialization into the hierarchies of difference in the Czech immigration context ...69 //
Reducing undesirable visibility: Passing as the more privileged ... 74 // Performing alternative visibilities ...78 // The good workers: Work ethic, skills and legality ...79 // “We don’t live in closed communities”: Openness and adaptability ...86 // CHAPTER 3 // “THE RETURN OF THE RUSSIANS”: NEGOTIATING THE CULTURAL TRAUMA OF “1968” ...107 // From the Brother to the Other? “Russians” and the politics of belonging in Czechia after 1989 ...110 // The cultural trauma of “1968” ...115 // On becoming perpetrators: the “perpetrators” meet the “victims” ...116 // »TENIS // 7 // Whose guilt? ...119 // Responses to the stigma of the perpetrators: Differentiation and individualization ...121 // Time heals all wounds? ...125 // Rejection of the stigma of the perpetrators ...127 // Final reflection: Immigration from the former Soviet Union // to post-1989 Czech Republic, the cultural trauma of “1968” and a postcolonial perspective on migration ...129 // CONCLUSION ...133 // APPENDIX A: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS ...139 // Selection of the research participants ...139 // Data collection and analysis ...141 // Brief characterization of the research participants ...143 // APPENDIX B: SEVERAL MEANS TO AVOID // INCONVENIENCE ABROAD ...149 // FIGURES AND TABLES ...151 // BIBLIOGRAPHY ...152 // INDEX 165