MUSLIM MIGRANTS IN BRATISLAVA

• Authors: Cenker Michal
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper draws from the ethnographic research of Muslim migrants in Bratislava in Slovakia, which author conducted in the spring and summer of 2009. The author wishes to explain internal dynamics of what is often called the 'Muslim community' in Slovakia and he pays notice to the most important functions of a place these migrants call 'the mosque'. He will question these terms and shows why they are disputable. Even though Islam and migration are heavily debated issues in Europe, there has been very little research on them in Slovakia. This paper wishes to give a better perspective on these themes by approaching them from the 'inside'; from the particular life stories of men and women he met on the site during his fieldwork.

Keywords

EN

BRATISLAVA; ETHNOGRAPHY; INTEGRATION; ISLAM; MIGRANTS; MOSQUE; MUSLIMS; SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 213-236
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cenker Michal

• Michal Cenker, Znievska 42, 85106 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA093319