A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia: What Lies Beneath the Fear of the Thirteenth Migrant [Hardcover]

A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia: What Lies Beneath the Fear of the Thirteenth Migrant qualitatively deciphers what lies beneath the fears about the imaginary thirteenth migrant and explores how individuals make sense of migration in nontraditional destination countries, utilizing critical, cultural sociological methods to explore the deep meaning-making processes that inform migration attitudes.

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia, and Faculty Fellow at Yale Universitys Center for Cultural Sociology.
Radka Klvanov? is assistant professor at the Department of Law and Humanities at Mendel University in Brno, Czechia.
Alica Synek?R?tiov? is assistant professor of sociology at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia.
Ivana Rapoa Bo~ic is post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia.
Jan Krotk? is post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.

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. Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University

A fascinating, theoretically grounded, and empirically rich answer to questions about why migrants loom so large when they make up such a small percentage of the actual population. An invaluable contribution to how 'migration attitudes' form, why they are so stubbornly intractable, and how they are deeply rooted in specific socio-historical contexts. Peggy Levitt, author ofTransnational Social Protection: Changing Social Welfare in a World on the Move

This excellent book brings us closer to a deeper understanding of one of our time's most pressing issues within, as well as beyond, Czech societythe formation of migration attitudes. With nuanced analysis andlãõ