Paper short abstract:

My fieldwork was conducted in a refugee camp in Hungary and in migrant communities. I will show the (re)constructions of identities and the interpretation of the afro-migrants’ construction which have an imagined Europe. Meanwhile Afro-European and Muslim-European intertexts and borders come into being.

Paper long abstract:

In my lecture I undertake the interpretation of my fieldwork conducted in a refugee camp in Hungary and in African and Muslim migrant communities in the capital of Hungary. The identities constructions and (re)constructions are in the focus of my lecture.

In my interpretation I have given place to the post-modern theoretical approach of the identities' (re)constructions and to the interpretation of the afro-migrants' construction which have an imagined European image. Furthermore I will show the possibilities of the intertextual interpretation of migrant cultures. It will remark on the postcolonial cultures and on the cultural colonization by a mediated European image. This European image and images are helping for migrants to (re)construct their own identities but the inferior parts are lacking in their image. I also examined how they struggled with estrangement in European cultures, and how they tried to legitimate their place, while they reflected on the traditions of one or the other culture. We must also see, that the migrants develop strategies to 'survive' the economical and cultural difficulties, therefore they 'run away' and find themselves in a religious fellowship or ethnic minority or the blackleg worker market including the sexual market. These possibilities can not reflect to their traditional cultures and to the image of European culture. Thus they need to (re)construct their identity while one type of the Afro-European and Muslim-European intertexts and borders come into being.

In my lecture, I would like to use these aspects to present the results of my fieldwork.