In spite of the fact that Vietnamese has currently made up one of the three largest foreign community in the Czech Republic, the number of studies that focus on the challenges of Vietnamese immigrants, especially on the topic of the “second generation” in the Czech society is unfortunately confined. Different from their own parents and even other adolescents, one of the biggest obstacles that Vietnamese youth in the Czech Republic are facing in life is the question of their ethnic identity in the term of liminality and being strangers to both cultures (Vietnamese and Czech). Taking those reasons into account, this thesis aims to examine the experiences of “being stuck in between” and confronting “identity conflict” among children and youth of Vietnamese descent in the Czech Republic. Based on a sociocultural approach, this paper pulls together prior and existing studies, in-depth interviews along with personal narratives that bear on immigrant experiences from the perspective of children and young people who have Vietnamese roots, in order to facilitate a broader understanding of their special situation and factors that constitute their identity conflicts.
