A contested terrain: immigrants and their descendants in Viennese culture

Sievers, Wiebke

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2013.828622

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“…However, research on migrants' artistic practices shows both opportunities for and barriers to becoming and being recognised as an artist. These relate to the arrival countries' political, legal, and economic conditions as well as the migrants' resources (Delhaye 2008;Gebesmair 2009;Lena and Cornfield 2008;Sievers 2014). One issue under consideration is the role ethnicity plays in the field of art.…”

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Double burden of representation: how ethnic and refugee categorisation shapes Syrian migrants’ artistic practices in Austria

Parzer

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This article examines the experiences of artists who were forced to leave their homes due to war, persecution, and violence that (re-)started their artistic careers in their arrival countries. Based on an ethnographic study of Syrian refugees' artistic practices in Vienna, Austria, spanning diverse cultural fields (music, theatre, literature, visual art), the paper shows how these artists are not only confronted with what has been called 'the burden of ethnic representation', but also with expectations that emerge from being categorised as 'refugees'. A four-mode typology of the artists' selfpresentations (adapting/masking/switching/refusing) uncovers how this 'double burden of representation' shapes their positioning in the field of artby emphasising either ethnic or refugee labels (or both or neither). The findings contribute to the study of social categorisation of migrants and their artistic practices in the cultural field and how this affects pathways of social incorporation.

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Double burden of representation: how ethnic and refugee categorisation shapes Syrian migrants’ artistic practices in Austria

Parzer

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Migrant entrepreneurs are now engaged in a broad variety of activities, ranging from construction to gastronomy, accommodation, retail, services and trade. Along with the general trend of urban economies, the fields of creative industry and culture have gained particular relevance in this context (Brandellero, ; Gebesmair, ; Sievers, ).…”

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Migrant Businesses And The Symbolic Transformation Of Urban Neighborhoods: Towards a Research Agenda

Parzer

Huber

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Migrant businesses play a crucial role not only in the economies of Western European cities, but also in the revaluation of urban space. Alongside their relevance to physical neighborhood development, migrant businesses seem to be crucial in transforming urban spaces symbolically. Although there is some evidence from migrant business research and the literature on gentrification, the phenomenon has not yet been studied systematically. We therefore propose a research agenda that addresses the relationship between migrant businesses and the symbolic transformation of urban neighborhoods.

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“…Ako se ima u vidu činjenica da Austrija sebe nikada nije smatrala imigracionom zemljom (v. Castels 1986;Zick et al 2008;Sievers 2014), i da pitanje stranih radnika i problematizacija kulturne različitosti, kao i integracija, u fokus ulaze tek devedesetih godina XX veka, dok se prve javne politike o ovim pitanjima pojavljuju tek u dvehiljaditim godinama (v. Wets 2006; Sievers 2014; Latcheva and Herzog-Punzenberger 2017), postavlja se pitanje na koje se sve načine imigranti mogu integrisati u austrijsko društvo, a da ne budu asimilovani, odnosno da budu prihvaćeni kao ravnopravni građani sa svojim posebnostima. Kada je reč o prvoj i drugoj generaciji gastarbajtera, slobodno se može reći da se pitanja integracije uopšte nisu ni postavljala.…”

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Viennese Hallways in Darko Markov's Bleak Vision

Antonijević

2020

EAP / IEA

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This paper analyzes the novel Twilight in the Viennese Hallway 2 (Old Boska) (2013) by Darko Markov, a migrant-writer from Vienna. The novel describes the way of life and culturological characteristics of Serbian immigrants in Austria through two generations – the gastarbeiter as the older immigrant stratum of migrant workers in the 1970s and 1980s, and the younger, well-educated people who immigrated in the 1990s, fleeing the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the dire economic situation in Serbia due to inflation and international sanctions. Through the seemingly simple storyline about the marital and romantic problems of the protagonist – a young intellectual from Belgrade who arrived in Vienna in the 1990s, the author constructs a dense narrative network of the main character's various experiences, describing the difficulties of adjusting and coping in a foreign country. The protagonist simultaneously comes up against two worlds with different value systems – on the one hand, that of the gastarbeiter, his compatriots, whose way of life, attitudes and behaviors he often finds strange and unacceptable, sometimes even irrational, and on the other hand, the prejudices, intolerance and lack of understanding exhibited by Austrians not only towards him but also towards other immigrants. His path crossing that of various other characters, the protagonist himself undergoes changes in his search for meaning and for his place in a foreign land. In his description of characters and their actions Darko Markov uses the literary technique of realism, relying to a great extent, by his own admission, on real-life persons and events. His mimetic narrative technique can thus be characterized as faction – a blend of fiction and facts, enriched with numerous ethnographic descriptions of the traits, behavior, appearance, speech and value system of the gastarbeiter and other migrants in the Austrian capital. In that sense Markov's novel belongs to the genre of ethnographic prose as it abounds in anthropologically and ethnologically relevant themes and motifs. In a wider sense, the novel belongs to migrant literature defined in terms of the theme, characters and content relating to the life of migrants, and, secondly, the author who is himself an immigrant. The paper first provides a literary-ethographic analysis through the structural elements of its composition – the plot, the characters (attributes, actions and motivation), the narrative time frame and the space that Serbian immigrants in Vienna inhabit and move around in. It then proceeds to analyze through anthropological interpretation some of the novel' motifs and themes, specifically, the problems of ethnic prejudice, integration into the host society, the marginal position of immigrants through two types of marginalization – exterior marginalization in the form of their socio-economic status, and interior marginalization through exoticization and stigmatization, and also the question of language as an important ethnic and cultural marker.

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A contested terrain: immigrants and their descendants in Viennese culture

Cited by 10 publications

References 2 publications

Double burden of representation: how ethnic and refugee categorisation shapes Syrian migrants’ artistic practices in Austria

Double burden of representation: how ethnic and refugee categorisation shapes Syrian migrants’ artistic practices in Austria

Migrant Businesses And The Symbolic Transformation Of Urban Neighborhoods: Towards a Research Agenda

Viennese Hallways in Darko Markov's Bleak Vision

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