Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia, and Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology.Radka Klvanová is assistant professor at the Department of Law and Humanities at Mendel University in Brno, Czechia. Alica Synek?Rétiová is assistant professor of sociology at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia. Ivana Rapoš Božic is post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia.Jan Krotký is post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.

• Introduction. A Critical Cultural Sociology of Attitudes toward MigrationChapter 1. Foreigner, Migrant, Refugee: What Lies Beneath the LabelsChapter 2. Looking at Images of People Who Cross Borders: Visuality, Emotions, and the Civil SphereChapter 3. Threat, Victim, or Enrichment: Patterns of Securitization in Migration AttitudesChapter 4. Migration as Invasion: The Role of Media in Shaping Migration AttitudesChapter 5. Going Local with Migration Attitudes: Multiplicity in Hierarchies of OthernessChapter 6. Moving Beyond the Fear of the “Thirteenth Migrant”Appendix. Reflecting Upon Our Research Journey

This is a major work, one that brings together nuanced multilevel research at the empirical level and strikingly new theorizing at the middle range. It is a landmark in the sociology of immigration.