Everydayness of Indian students in the Czech Republic: The change of socio-geographical space and its perception

This bachelor's thesis explores and analyses the everyday of Indian students studying in the Czech republic as an act of reconstruction of socio-geographical perceptions among five student participants. Drawing from contemporary literature on the study of the everyday, discussing current qualitative research on the topic of Indian migration to Europe, and building a contextual base for the past and present relationship between India and Czechia, this thesis analyses qualitative data stemming from several semi-structured interviews through the lens of the Grounded Theory. Sensitising concepts from the works of Ben Highmore, James Morrow, and other theoreticians provide in synthesis an analytical framework for the study of everyday as a negotiation between external and internal social forces in a wider social environment. The everyday based in the lived experiences of the five participants emerges as management of disjointed time through interaction with bureaucratic or academic systems, fluidity in continuously reconstructed identity, and the process of homing as a curation and negotiation of belonging. The socio-geographical perceptions present themselves as a liminal affair creating an idiosyncratic third space outside of spatial dependency. This thesis also discusses potential ethical quandaries...