Us and Them and After All - Cosmopolitanism in Identity-Making and Integration of Muslim Migrant Youth
2022
Abstract
Discourse on migration tends to locate migrants, including the migrant youth, within a transnational framework (Horst and Olsen, 2021), maintaining ties with their countries of origin and rooted in their national or ethnic identities. Such discursive iterations foreclose the inclusion of the youth in the cosmopolitan pro- ject, capable of a global outlook traditionally seen as the preserve of the white, Western elites.
The present chapter engages an ethnographic study with Muslim migrant youth of the Czech Republic to show how the youth play an instrumental role in challenging such essentializing understanding of migrants.