Islam ante portas: Аpplication of Bauman’s Тheory of a Foreigner to the Analysis of Social Distance towards Muslim Migrants in Serbia
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Zygmunt Bauman, Islam, migrations from Middle East, sociological theory, social distanceAbstract
Bauman’s theory of the attitude of the Western population towards migrants is based on the analysis of several aspects: ontological, ethical, economic, social, political and security. It is a complex theory which is build on his earlier research on fluid life, globalization, and the (post)modernity. In this paper, I will first present Bauman’s basic hypotheses about the attitude towards foreigners who are comming „to our door“, and then I will apply these hypotheses to the analysis of the situation with the migrant crisis in Serbia. Although Bauman bases his theory on the experiences of Western European countries, I will try to show why his conclusions can be extended to countries on the periphery of world capitalism, such as Serbia. To test some of Bauman’s hypotheses, I will analyse public opinion polls in Serbia. Although I did not conduct the research by operationalizing Bauman’s theory and therefore I cannot speak of confirming or refuting his assumptions, the analysis of secondary empirical data will serve as our initial orientation and heuristic reconnaissance for some future research in that direction.
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