Cross-cultural Transfer of Harmful Traditional Practices as a Factor of Destabilization of the European Society
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within one group or a society with a symbolic meaning. However, not every tradition is positive – there are many harmful traditional practices throughout the world, most of them centered around treatment of women and children in various cultures. Even though most of them predominantly target women, that is, girls, such as early child marriage, female genital mutilation, honour killing, etc., it is a quite unknown fact that boys, that is, male minors, face similar problems as well. In this paper, the author aims to analyze the harmful traditional practice known as Bacha Bazi, that is, “the dancing boy”, referring to culturally approved, centuries-old tradition of child sexual abuse practiced in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which has emerged as a negative phenomenon within the migration crisis, and thus, entered the European space. In exploring the origins and forms of cultural justification of this ill practice, the author seeks the answer the following research question: “Does the emergence of the harmful traditional practice of Bacha Bazi along the migration routes pose a threat to Europe?”. By using the method of content analysis, as well as through interviews with humanitarian workers in the Republic of Serbia, the author intends to shed some light onto this negative practice, as well as offer possible detection and prevention methods aimed at saving the male minors from such environments.
Author: MILOŠEVIĆ, Tanja
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4293585338