RT Article
T1 Bypassing the Social Distance: International Catholic Community, Friendship, and Homemaking among Expatriates in Brno
JF Journal of religion in Europe
VO 14
IS 1/2
SP 80
OP 105
A1 Fujda, Milan 1978-
A1 Ondrašinová, Michaela
A1 Vrzal, Miroslav
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/176608057X
AB Abstract We analyze the role of intimate social ties and community in the processes of homemaking and social integration of highly skilled migrants who are members of the local international Catholic community in Brno, Czech Republic. We use the concepts of bonding and bridging social capital developed by Michael W. Foley and Dean R. Hoge and follow their attention to the effects of the worship communities’ organizational culture on migrants’ integration. In the article, we show that the Catholic community mediates its members’ homemaking efficiently by providing them with rich bonding social capital, generated through close social ties in the community. However, it does not provide them with enough bridging social capital, and their social integration, thus, remains restricted to the company of international fellows. We compare it with the strategies of homemaking used by settling migrants who have integrated more successfully into the Czech social environment.
K1 bridging and bonding social capital
K1 Community
K1 Catholicism
K1 Friendship
K1 Expatriates
K1 highly skilled migration
K1 Integration
K1 homemaking
DO 10.1163/18748929-20211512