Pillanatképek a sokféleségről: a társadalmi sokféleség diskurzusai migránsokról szóló dokumentumfilmekben
Snapshots of Diversity: Social Diversity Discourses in Documentaries on Migration

Summary/Abstract: The paper gives a short introduction to several theoretical approaches to social diversity,that describe multiculturalism and interculturalism as gradual approaches, from a moreconservative to reconstructive approaches to possible goals, target groups and interactionsamong dominant and non-dominant groups.On the basis of this comparative analysis three main approaches might bedescribed that are present in all these discourses: a compensatory approach, where successstrategies of both migrants and dominant groups are most commonly aim adjusting– often assimilation - to the canonized values and norms of a dominant culture. Secondlythere is an approach to cultural diversity in a static and pluralist way: tolerance- andcooperation-approaches belong to this group, where there is a contact – in diverse formsand levels – among social groups, however their everyday practices and identities stay intact. The third approach is a dynamic, transformative view of culture and society, withcritical, transformative approaches and practices, that might be discovered mostly withinlocal communities and diverse personal relations. I looked within this theoretic frameworkto documentary films, where members of the host and sending societies reflect to theirexperiences with migrants; and migrants reflect either to their own success strategies intheir new home countries or the process of their re-integration in their country of origin.

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