Date of publishing:
25.3.2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21104/CL.2022.1.02
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Abstract:
The text deals with a cosmopolitan Anglophone institution of youth theatre in Anglophone migration in the Czech Republic. While Anglophone migration is privileged due to language and its position in the globalized world, children and young people with migrant parents are associated with establishing one's position among peers where it is essential to be included. In the Czech context of a homogeneous society, Anglophone teenagers are often considered different, and their position in a peer group may be questioned. While the teenagers enjoy the safe environment of the youth theatre where their outside otherness is normality, they strengthen their cosmopolitanism. The Czech homogeneous society is pushing them into more privileged social landscapes.
Keywords
Anglophone migration; cosmopolitanism; privileged social landscape, otherness
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