<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper provides an insight into ‘Slovak group’ of Namibian children taken to Czechoslovakia. As a form of a communist solidarity help to the country fighting for its freedom, the children were raised and educated in newly established boarding school in Považská Bystrica from September 1989. Their stay, and particularly their sudden unexpected repatriation in 1991, raised questions not only among general public, but also in print media of those days. The article therefore discusses the media portrayal of the Slovak group of Namibian children with a special accent on the shifts in media interpretations in time. The overall research combines a biographical and historical design with the use of the qualitative analysis of print media outputs.</p></abstract>

The paper provides an insight into ‘Slovak group’ of Namibian children taken to Czechoslovakia. As a form of a communist solidarity help to the country fighting for its freedom, the children were raised and educated in newly established boarding school in Považská Bystrica from September 1989. Their stay, and particularly their sudden unexpected repatriation in 1991, raised questions not only among general public, but also in print media of those days. The article therefore discusses the media portrayal of the Slovak group of Namibian children with a special accent on the shifts in media interpretations in time. The overall research combines a biographical and historical design with the use of the qualitative analysis of print media outputs.

’Jakeš’s Children’. Media Portrayal of Namibian Child Refugees in Slovakia

Department of Sociology, Andragogy and Cultural Anthropology

Ethnologia Actualis

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The paper provides an insight into ‘Slovak group’ of Namibian children taken to Czechoslovakia. As a form of a communist solidarity help to the country...

’Jakeš’s Children’. Media Portrayal of Namibian Child Refugees in Slovakia

Published Online: Apr 06, 2019

Page range: 54 - 77

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2019-0003

Keywords
qualitative content analysis, exiled children, Namibia, media analysis, post-socialist media

© 2018 Martina Jakubcová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

’Jakeš’s Children’. Media Portrayal of Namibian Child Refugees in Slovakia

Published Online: Apr 06, 2019

Page range: 54 - 77

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2019-0003

Keywordsqualitative content analysis, exiled children, Namibia, media analysis, post-socialist media

© 2018 Martina Jakubcová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
qualitative content analysis, exiled children, Namibia, media analysis, post-socialist media