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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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Current labour migration to the Czech Republic: The synthetic study of integration models of the third country nationals
Střechová, Veronika ; Drbohlav, Dušan (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
TITLE: CURRENT LABOUR MIGRATION TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC: THE SYNTHETIC STUDY OF INTEGRATION MODELS OF THE THIRD COUNTRY NATIONALS The aim of the thesis is to describe a process of an integration of eight groups of third country nationals in Czech society by using findings of several researches conducted in Czechia since the late nineties of the 20th century. The information about immigrants from Russia, Ukraine, China, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Arabic countries and about immigrants from countries of Sub-Saharan Africa are structured in accordance with a concept of integration as a multidimensional process, suggested by Friedrich Heckmann and Wolfgang Bosswick. The work reveals a high internal diversity of researched groups in terms of a type of a residence permit which individuals possess, socioeconomic attributes, phase in a life cycle of individual, relationship of individual to the country of origin and his or her future plans about settlement in Czechia. These diversities are reflected in a number of different patterns and levels of integration of compatriots in a spatial, structural, cultural, interactive and identification dimension of integration. There is a research perspective change in the closing part of the thesis. This change is done in order to highlight those kinds of migrants'...
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The reemigration of the Czech minority from Daruvar region (Croatia) after the Second World War in the light of their life stories.
Pelikánová, Hana ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee)
In my thesis I am dealing with the subject of the afterwar reemigration of Czech from Daruvar region (Croatia), the center of Czech minority in the Northern Balcan which was enjoying a flourishing cultural and economical growth in the interwar period. After WWII many of the settlers decided to return to their old homeland in the process of the so-called reemigration which had to compensate for the forced departure of the expelled German minority from the Czech lands. In my thesis I have recorded life-story interviews with expatriates from Daruvar region and I am focusing on several issues in connection with these events. First of all, I am trying to reconstruct the circurmstances, motivation and the course of the reemigration transfers. Secondly, I am also dealing with the topic of the integration of expatriates in the society which had undergone thorough socioeconomical changes after the WWII. Finally, I am analysing the individual evaluations of this life experience and the positive and negative consequences it brought to the expatriates and their families.
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Social and cultural adaptation of the cuban immigrants on the czech milieu
Kaucká, Tereza ; Halbich, Marek (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
This work deals with the immigration of Cubans to the Czech Republic, their life in the Czech Republic and especially their social and cultural adaptation to the Czech milieu. The aim is to find out the reasons why Cuban migrants leave their country of origin and why they come to the Czech Republic. It goes on to describe the way how the individual respondents integrate to the Czech milieu, what helps them to adapt and what is difficult for them. The subject of the research are the Cuban migrants in Prague who came to the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia) before the 1989 and keep coming up to the present day.
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Everyday Life during social transformation: Sociability and Social Relations of inhabitants of the inner city in Brno and Ostrava
Mair, Jana ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Vaishar, Antonín (referee) ; Pargač, Jan (referee)
1 Abstract This thesis deals with everyday life in major cities during the post-socialist transformation in the Czech Republic. It aims to contribute to our understanding of the everyday life of the inhabitants of Brno and Ostrava during the period and to explain the impact of the post- socialist transformation on their lives and social relations. The results are based on extensive fieldwork (i.e., a questionnaire survey and structured interviews of the inhabitants of the inner cities) conducted in Brno and Ostrava in 2007-2009. The fieldwork was based on ethnographic work describing the sociability and social relations of the inhabitants of the inner cities, with an emphasis on kinship and neighbourly relations. During the post-socialist transformation, Brno and Ostrava underwent a variety of significant changes, ranging from industrial transformation to lifestyle adjustments. They had developed differently both during and prior to socialism. For example, Ostrava became focused mainly on heavy industry, while Brno had a more varied economic structure. Since 1989, these cities have continued to diverge. As for the attitudes of informants toward their lives in the inner cities, they varied greatly. As for sociability, both neighbourly relations and kinship form a mosaic of features, some of which were...
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Carnival and Schizophreny of the Most Landscape.
Ištvánek, Prokop ; Haluzík, Radovan (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
Resume The goal of my thesis is to familiarize readers with Schizophrenia, a term used by local people to describe a traumatic social phenomenon which is to be found in Most brown coal mining region, northern part of Czech Republic. I start from Sherry Ortner's assumption that history is influenced both by social system and by agency. Therefore, I analyze traumatic face of Most landscape, reorganized by modern technology heavily together with anency of local inhabitants transformed onto collective public events. Readers can find here one of the first attempt to organize rich material, collected durnig my five years long ethnographic field work done in a Strupcice village. By the reasons of socialistic programme to mine the village and thanks to postsocialistic changes in Czech law, Strupcice got stuck and surrounded by two large mines. The village is dynamically developing presently. There are two main chapters from total five in the thesis. In the first one, I find the traumatic part of the surrounding landscape in several kinds of material, nevertheless the most important one is represented by naratives. Another main chapter is focused on collective events. I analyze them using some concepts of several anthropolgists, for example Victor Turner and his Social drama, Richard Schechner and his Performance,...
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The Program of a Modern Urban Research and Its outcomes
Petruželka, Tobiáš ; Lapka, Miloslav (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Lošťák, Michal (referee)
Cílem disertace je interdisciplinární kontextualizace chicagské sociologické školy, zaměřuje se především na ty její aspekty, jež se týkají sociologických výzkumů města Chicaga v letech 1915- 1940. Cílem práce je propojit historický kontext a lokální specifika tehdejších výzkumů s výzkumným programem chicagské školy a jeho naplňováním. Nejprve jsou přiblíženy vybrané výzkumy, které chicagskou školy předcházely, dále jsou představena konceptuální a teoretická východiska jejího výzkumného programu. Nakonec jsou v tématických kapitolách kriticky prozkoumány nejvýznamnější monografie chicagské školy z let 1915-1940. Disertace se zabývá především tématy moderní urbánní kultury, migrace, kriminality a vývojem sociálního výzkumu v městském prostředí. Abstract The aim of this dissertaion is to contextualize historically and spatially the so called Chicago School of sociology. The Focus of the thesis is to present the urban research of the Chicago School in the years between 1915-1940 in an interdisciplinary perspective through the lenses of the historical context intertwined with specifics of the local research, followed by the research program of the Chicago School with its manifold research outcomes and applications. The interdisciplinary approach towards the topic and the contemporary practice of...
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Illegal migration and detentism in Czech republic
Krahulík, Martin ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Pargač, Jan (referee)
Economical prosperity vs. expulsion and detention centres create a connected system of push and pull factors that characterises current f10w of ilIegal migration. The Czech Republic has become a targeted country of ilIegal migrants shortly after the falI of communism in the late eighties of the last century. However for many of ilIegal migrants, it is stilI a transitive country on their way further west. The study deals with the impact of the EU entry on numbers of detained illegal migrants or asylum seekers in Czech detention centres. It describes living conditions in the biggest and oldest Czech detention centre in Bálková and criticises them. It also analyses situation at the Czech border and concludes that after May 2004 the crossing of illegal migrants has become much easier thanks to the withdrawal of custom tariff controls. The thesis describes Czech practice of deportations and presents relevant statistical data's. Biographical interview s with detained asylum seekers are included as well. The concentration focuses on illegal migrants form China and Ukraine, who create majority of detained inmates. Other topics in the study interpret parts of the Act on Residence of the Aliens which regulate entry and stay of foreign country nationals in the Czech Republic. There is also a section which compares...
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Šluknovský výběžek: Identities, Narratives, Representations.
Vaňková, Markéta ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Moravcová, Mirjam (referee)
The thesis results from a qualitative anthropological research conducted in the border area of Šluknovský výběžek. The research subject is the construction and representation of local identites by the inhabitants of the borderland. The first part of the thesis contains an analyzis of local identity construction by the people who migrated into the studied area in the 2nd half of the 20th century. The key concept of this part is the concept of narrativity. The author analyzes the potential re-territorialization of local identity of new settlers as well as the geographical demarcation of the local identity with regard to the near national borderline. Furthermore, there are described distinct post-migration adaptation strategies of the new settlers. In the second part the author focuses on the public representations of the studied area by local activists. Three different projects aspiring to represent and thus establish the studied area as an internally homogenous (trans-border) region are analyzed. Thereby the thesis refers to the issue of the European Union and interconnected idea of European regionalism.
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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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