Studying, Settling, and Struggling
摘要
This chapter empirically captures the lived experience of Africans who live in Czechia, most of them already for many years. Many participants came to the country as students, settled, started families, and became citizens. Students often feel a pan-African, cross-national solidarity towards each other, which is amplified by always being the raciolinguisticraciolinguistic Other. We show through this raciolinguistic lens which obstacles they encounter and which struggles they are fighting. Providing narratives of exclusion, complicated visa processes, languagelanguage barriers, racialisations, and racial abuses, the chapter argues that African individuals come to Czechia for its sociopolitical safetysafety and education opportunities, but this safety also comes at very high costs. This often leads to participants feeling torn between the relatively good life in Czechia and returning to the home country in order to escape the persistency of living a life as a racially Other in an environment where whitenesswhiteness is solidified as superior.