Migrants as Visitors: A Colour-Blind Approach and Imagined Racial Hierarchy












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            * Nicola Raúl – Jaroslav Šotola
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            Abstract

            This article provides the results on research into the attitudes of Czech seniors towards 
            non-European origin. It is based on an interpretation of ten semi-structured interviews of
            nature, focused on the participants’ encounters with otherness. Regardless of the politica

            the period of time, the main feature of this contact is distance and separation from forei
            point of view of seniors, migration is an unnatural and only temporary phenomenon that has
            and restricted by the state. Negative attitudes towards foreigners in the narrations are c

            seemingly neutral statements that are subject to an effort of not providing any reason for
            as a “racist”. Nevertheless, it is still possible to uncover the idea of self-evident powe

            over categories of people understood as racially different. Although the seniors expressed
            of sympathy, indifference, or antipathy towards the individual non-European groups, we bel
            differences are not a manifestation of selective acceptance, but rather a manifestation of

            hierarchy in which groups perceived as submissive are preferred.

            Keywords: racial hierarchy; attitudes towards migrants; colour-blind approach; power asymm

            Republic

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