Essays about: "post-1989 Czech migration"

Found 1 essay containing the words post-1989 Czech migration.

  1. 1. The role of materiality in transnational family relationships of Czech migrants in Sweden

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Kristyna Peychlova; [2012]
    Keywords : transnational families; materiality; Czechoslovak political emigration; post-1989 Czech migration; license to leave; long-distance communication; return visits; kin visits;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to analyze the transnational family relationships of Czech pre-1989 political émigrés and post-1989 love/ economic migrants in Sweden and their homeland-based relatives, by looking at the practices via which these relationships are initiated and maintained and the role of materiality in these practices. The theoretical framework builds on the notion of “transnationalism from below” as a perspective which intersects migration and family studies, and posits the focus on material culture as an effective analytical tool. READ MORE