CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Ryokas, Aino-Mari Talvikki |
|---|---|
| Title | When children negotiate the illiberal: the relationality of the migrant other in Hungary |
| Summary | In this thesis I study the relationality of children towards representations of the migrant, guided by their societal positions in the power nexus of class and race. My research contributes to existing accounts of children’s otherness, and of their othering, by looking at the relationality of citizenship and belonging in multiple social strata. I investigate the representations of the migrant as a new, illiberal external other among two groups of children and adolescents: middle class, white Hungarian students and marginalized Hungarian Roma students. Through ethnographic fieldwork in two schools in Budapest, I employ an intersectional approach in investigating how these children from different socioeconomic backgrounds understand the figure of the migrant. The ethnographic data, which I contextualize with an analysis and historicization of the marginalization of the Roma on one hand, and the development of a restrictive migration regime, on the other, demonstrates that children from different social strata learn to navigate in processes of citizenship from heteroglossias, which in turn are related to their social positions and create spaces for negotiating dynamics of otherness. Heteroglossias manifest the cacophony of narratives within which children select and construct their worlds, as the double-bind of class and race define not only how social worlds are constructed for children, but also how children learn to construct those realities. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar; Rabinowitz, Dan |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/ryokas_aiski.pdf |
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