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Ethnic Identity and conflict (on the Example of Multiethnic Territory of Cruise Ships)
Medvecká, Zuzana ; Skupnik, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Kobes, Tomáš (referee)
In my doctoral thesis, which I have elaborated on the basis of my diploma thesis Doubled Identity of Crew Members on Cruise Ships as the Instrument of Cultural Adaptation, supervised by Mgr. Helena Tužinská, PhD., I have analysed the way of life of crew members sharing the multiethnical territory of cruise ships. Crew members working there come from over 50 different countries. In spite of their different origins and cultures which have been forming their behaviour and way of thinking, they share small space without any conflicts. My goal is to sum up the basic conditions which should be met in any multiethnical society to ensure that there would not be any conflicts between its habitants. According to my hypothesis there is a need of other than ethnical identity which could unify them on other than ethnical basis. In the territory of cruise ships it is the socio-professional identity of 'crew member '. I found out that there are two main factors responsible for successful co-existence of people from different cultures here - communication and the system of values. That is why from all factors in which we can observe socio-professional identity of crew members I preferably analyse rules and norms established by crew members and lingua franca used on cruise ships called 'ship language'. The specific...
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Changes of lacadon society.
Nečasová, Lucie ; Soukup, Václav (advisor) ; Soukup, Martin (referee) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to study the life and customs of the Lacandon Indians, one of the smallest indigenous groups of Maya origin, who live in two villages in the Lacandon jungle, in Chiapas, Mexico. The thesis is focused on Lacandon life from the time when they were living in relative isolation from the outside world, and also on changes that have occurred during the 20th century. It has been particularly considered the changes in the Lacandon family and the position of Lacandon women. The study is based on available ethnographic studies, gender theories and especially on my own research realized in the communities of Lacanjá and Nahá from 2008 to 2012.
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Subsidy Practice of the Czech Republic Concerning the Integration of Roma Population
Podrazilová, Alena ; Klípa, Ondřej (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with subsidy practice of the Czech Republic concerning the integration of Roma population. The aim is to describe the current system of government measures, structures and activities that should mediate integration of Roma population in the society and facilitate coexistence with the majority as well as reflect on the importance and efficiency of such approach. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part gives a brief overview of integration of Roma population in the Czech Republic after World War II, including sub-chapters dealing with different periods regarding the changes of state policy towards Roma population. These lead to a chapter concerning integrating efforts of the Czech law after 1989. They are represented by individual strategic documents and current institutional establishment of Roma integration and followed by a chapter focused on subsidy programs organized in accordance with Government Regulation No. 98/2002 Coll. with a detailed focus on subsidy programs announced by the Government. The practical part investigates the answer to the question: What is the point Roma clients of non-profit organizations see in subsidies or subsidized services they are offered? The results of the research are evaluated at the end of this part which...
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Urban Anthropology and the Role of Global Cities Applied on Cultural Adaptation of Expat Spouses in Prague
Zahradníková Štefánková, Lucia ; Soukup, Martin (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Janeček, Petr (referee)
in English Presented thesis is theoretical-empirical analysis and interpretation of migration processes and groups with special focus on expat community temporarily residing in Prague, Czech Republic. Theoretical part draws from anthropological and sociological concepts and theories. It provides an overview of the origin of urban anthropology, and a cross-section of the most important studies of the cities focusing on migration processes. The thesis answers following questions: How has labor migration changed since the Chicago School? Who migrates for work today? How are cities changing under the influence of migration of transnational economic elites? How does the expat subculture influence the Czech capital Prague? What is the adaptation process of the cultural adaptation of expats and their partners in Prague? The empirical part of the paper presents the results of original fieldwork conducted as participant observation of the expat community in Prague from September 2010 to June 2012. The main academic focus was on the analysis of the cultural adaptation of foreigners in Prague, namely the expat community, and the analysis of Prague as a global city. It is an innovative topic in ethnography of Prague. Expats, their spouses and families affect spatial geography, urban structure, and the culture...
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The Perception of Urban Space on Daily Trips
Křivohlávek, Michal ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Jana (referee) ; Illner, Michal (referee)
Today the world population has reached its historical maximum and continues to rise. Billions of people travel in everyday life either to work and school or for community services. The daily practice of commuting substantially contributes to the perception of space of everyday life and to the image of city landscape. Nevertheless the means of everyday transit was not so far investigated as ways how to perceive the environment and method to create life-space. How is the city landscape specifically seen by commuters in different means of transport? What specific places and surroundings people encounter on the different ways of their everyday trips? This paper starts by presentation of different methods of investigation of space in ethnology and anthropology. On the example of Prague presents a broader overview to cultural context of daily space mobility. The third part of paper gives a result of concrete field study, how differently people commuting by diverse means of transportation describe the space and place around them.
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"Worst thing about it is that it is a must..." Roma and the Education System in the Czech Republic
Levínská, Markéta ; Kučera, Miloš (advisor) ; Morávková Krejčová, Lenka (referee) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
TITLE: "The worst thing about it is that it is a must…" Roma and the Education System in the Czech Republic AUTHOR: Mgr. Markéta Levínská, Ph.D. DEPARTMENT: Psychology SUPERVISOR: doc. PhDr. Miloš Kučera, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: The dissertation thesis presents the results of ethnographic research conducted between 2005 and 2012. The theoretical part provides an analysis of the cognitive process and looks for causes of prejudiced thinking. The practical part presents a number of topical articles with the intention to present the issues relating to the education of Roma in the Czech Republic from different perspectives. The first article deals with the Czech legislation and with the position of the Czech government. The rest of the practical part is divided into two sections - the first section presents two sets of outputs from researches conducted in an urban Roma community. The first article titled Eliška analyses the identity of a representative of the local community; the other, titled Romanka, describes the transfer of a Roma girl from elementary school to practical school. The second section contains chapters presenting field research in excluded rural areas. The chapter A weekday in Alfa addresses the issues of emergence of socially excluded locations and relationship between the majority and the minority....
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Migrants in irregular position - Czechia: a country of destination
Medová, Lenka ; Drbohlav, Dušan (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Toušek, Václav (referee)
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Europe has been confronted with an increase of irregular migration in connexion to the collapse of the communist regimes. Today, it is estimated that there are from about 2 to 4 million irregular migrants living in the European Union. Most of them take part in local informal economies. Besides traditional immigration countries of Western Europe, the southern European countries have also become a destination region of irregular migration. Recently though, the same can be said about some post- communist European countries, namely Czechia. The dissertation focuses on irregular migration in Czechia. More specifically, it deals with irregularly working migrants in the period preceding the global economic crisis. As there is insufficient level of knowledge of the phenomenon in Czechia, the dissertation delivers empirical material regarding forms and reasons of irregular migration and structure, volume and strategies of irregularly working migrants. These characteristics are framed within the European context. Moreover, from the terminological point of view, the dissertation tries to bypass the limitations of the Czech literature and presents own terminology of the given processes and their actors. Finally, the dissertation aims to contribute to current theoretical and...
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Transitional experience as reflected by the first Czech immigrant generation in the USA with a special focus on language
Kubáčková, Patricie ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Eckertová, Eva (referee) ; Moravcová, Mirjam (referee)
Patricie Kubáčková Transitional experience as reflected by the first Czech immigrant generation in the USA with a special focus on language This dissertation is focused on how the members of the first generation of the Czech immigrants in the USA reflected in the autobiographical narrative interviews their life experience of emigration and their effort on adaptation in the new country where they settled down and started their new life. In the reflection of the emigration they considered not only their situation but the future of their offspring too. As a unifying topic the motive of an stranger was determined. The strangers begin their new life in the new country, however, their origin remains detectable even after long time. This social legibility of their origin is analysed in the non-native accent and on different assimilative strategies concerning the names of the immigrants. I understand the first immigrant generation as a transitional generation. I focus on how the members of this generation reflected their language dissimilarity in their narrations if they experienced it as discredited or as a stigma and under what circumstances. In the gathered and analysed material I studied the attitude of the respondents to the native language maintenance and its transferirng to their offspring. I also dealt with...
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Polish Workers in Czechoslovakia: Unwelcome Friendship: Specific features of temporary labor migration in the socialist system
Klípa, Ondřej ; Kučera, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Zahradníček, Tomáš (referee)
Dissertation Title Polish Workers in Czechoslovakia: Unwelcome Friendship Specific features of temporary labor migration in the socialist system Author Ondřej Klípa Summary The aim of the dissertation is to study the case of Polish workers in Czechoslovakia who were employed on conditions set by intergovernmental treaties. Most of them were women. This case had two specific features. First, it was highly regulated by both of the co-operating states. Second, the state bodies tried to control intensively both the workers in order to isolate them from local population and the public discourse of this topic. In this study I argue that both of the features arise from fundamental elements of socialist system, which are "economy of shortage" and totalitarianism. These elements were identified in the work of Hungarian economist János Kornai. Instead of totalitarianism as a coherent concept I use only certain totalitarian practices that were exercised with variable intensity, depending on circumstances. In the dissertation I examine causality between these two fundamental elements (independent variables) and both regulation and control (dependent variables). For this purpose I consider the studied case as a specific model of temporary labor migration in socialist system. The case is also situated in a broader...
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The integration of immigrants in the Czech Republic: with and without the help of the non-governmental organizations - the comparative study
Suchánková, Pavla ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Kumsa, Alemayehu (referee)
This bachelor thesis concentrates on problematics of immigrants integration in the Czech Republic. The main aim of this work is, to find out what the kind of influence non- profit organisations, in this case the Counselling Centre for Integration, has for the process of integration of immigrants itself. The set target is being verified on the basis of comparison of integration level of clients of Counselling Centre for Integration and Globus ČR, k. s. employees. This work is divided into five basic chapters. The introductory chapter presents the topic, aims and the structure of the work itself. Second chapter is devoted to an evaluation of sources and literature used in this work. The theoretical part defines notions which are directly related with the problematics given, describes the process of integration of immigrants in the Czech Republic, deals with the integration politics and non-profit organisations in the Czech Republic. Empirical investigation contains some important data about Counselling Centre for Integration and an evaluation of information gained due to questionnaires, participant observations and non-structured informal discussions. Last chapter summarizes information gained and evalues target reachments.
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