In a New Homeland
In a New Homeland

Adaptation Strategy and Overcoming Discontinuity of Czech Migrants in Banat

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I shall focus on one specific way to solve and cope with crises of identity caused by a radically new life situation. I will follow a group of Czech Protestants who came from Central Europe and settled at the southeastern border of the Hapsburg Monarchy (currently Vojvodina, southern Banat) in the 19th century. I shall introduce strategies and mechanisms of adaptation that the migrants chose in order to cope with the new situation of emergency and uncertainty they experienced as part of the process. In general, I shall conceptualize these strategies as a culture of coping, based on migrants’ attempts to overcome the discontinuity of the social organization, structure, and social network that operated in their country of origin and their reconstruction or restoration in the new homeland.

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