Anthropologist Kristina Garalytė found that the biggest challenge facing Indian nationals in Lithuania was the language. As part of her study, she also looked into cultural differences, including the diverging attitudes toward Russia and its war against Ukraine.
“This was a new situation for me – previously I had worked in India, whereas here I had to establish contact with people living outside their own country and therefore was more cautious,” says the scholar from the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of Vilnius University.
The research, conducted primarily in Vilnius, Kaunas, and Klaipėda, involved more than 30 participants and focused on questions of migrant identity, including those in the context of the war in Ukraine.
“We were interested in how people position themselves – nationally and transnationally – and how they perceive what is happening around them,” Garalytė says.
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