Break Time Exchanges: Social Construction of “Resting” Spaces
                               Among the Vietnamese-Czech Community in Sapa, in Prague.











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            * Quynh Nguyen
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            Abstract

            This study provides a snapshot of the social lives of primarily first-generation Vietnames
            immigrants, who engage in small-scale merchant business at the Sapa market and cultural ce
            To add to the existing research on the Vietnamese immigrant community in the Czech Republi

            shifts from studying the immigrant community’s identity as business owners to their identi
            participants by observing the community’s interactions during break times. The researcher 
            framework of spatializing culture to focus on how such interactions help socially construc

            the resting spaces, existing in both the physical and online worlds of the Sapa market and
            This ethnographic study combines participant observation, insider ethnography, visual mapp

            and digital ethnography. The fieldwork reveals that the physical and digital rest areas of
            facilitate ethnic identity construction and preservation among the community members.
            Keywords: ethnography/netnography, online vs offline spaces, transnational community, Viet

            immigrants, ethnic identity

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