From Algeria to the Future: Transnational Perspective on Kabyle Immigration to the Czech Republic
Provider: Grantová agentura ČR
Programme: Postdoktorské projekty (řešení od 1.1. 2011)
Implementation period: 01.01.11 - 31.12.15
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Description:
The aim of this project is to conduct intensive anthropological fieldwork among Kabyle immigrants in the Czech Republic and in their home country ? Algeria ? and publish a monograph based on this fieldwork. I will study the Kabyle immigration in the Czech Republic by resorting to an anthropological methodology and a holistic approach. I will focus on immigrants? transnational social networks and analyze the dynamics of deterritorialized immigrants? identities focusing on the interconnection between ethnic (Kabyle), national (Algerian), and religious (Muslim) identity. In the fieldwork in Algeria, I will investigate the social and economic background of immigrants? families, impact of emigration on life in Kabylia and factors that encourage the process of emigration.
The aim of this project is to conduct intensive anthropological fieldwork among Kabyle immigrants in the Czech Republic and in their home country ? Algeria ? and publish a monograph based on this fieldwork. I will study the Kabyle immigration in the Czech Republic by resorting to an anthropological methodology and a holistic approach. I will focus on immigrants? transnational social networks and analyze the dynamics of deterritorialized immigrants? identities focusing on the interconnection between ethnic (Kabyle), national (Algerian), and religious (Muslim) identity. In the fieldwork in Algeria, I will investigate the social and economic background of immigrants? families, impact of emigration on life in Kabylia and factors that encourage the process of emigration.
