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Accepted Paper:
Intangible cultural heritage in everyday social life: social practices and business activities of specific group of immigrants from Ukraine to the Czech Republic
Zdenek Uherek
(Charles University)
Veronika Beranská
(The Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i.)
Paper short abstract:
In our paper we would like to concentrate on the group of immigrants from Ukraine to the Czech Republic and their social and business practices including their establishing new contacts with their source country.
Paper long abstract:
Knowledge, believes and skills are important components brought by immigrants to their new destination. The plain fact is that intangible cultural heritage strongly influences forms of integration to the new environment and relations between migration groups and autochthonous inhabitants. About twenty years we can witness a massive migration from Ukraine to the Czech Republic. In 1991 - 1993 immigrated to the Czech Republic a group of people from areas affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. In our paper we would like to show how their knowledge, skills and practices influence their lives, how they are developed in new conditions and how they can serve in their now business practices. We would concentrate primarily on immigrant groups in little East Bohemian towns. We can localize to this milieu also the most active organizers of social life of this specific group.