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Political macrogeography of current public opinion on migration and refugee crisis in the European Union: multilevel analyses
Bořil, Vít ; Dostál, Petr (advisor) ; Čermáková, Dita (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the so-called "migration crisis" and its impact on public opinion across the European Union (EU) between the years 2014 and 2017. It stems from existing literature that works with the concept of perceived group threat. The main goal is to analyze individual-level and contextual-level factors that played a key role in a certain development of native population's negative attitudes towards migrants and refugees. Such context is represented by the EU member states. An important part of the analysis deals with the relative imporance of contextual-level factors vis-à-vis individual-level determinants. Based on the results of multinomial multilevel logistic regression, the study finds that contextual-level characteristics had a substantial impact on negative attitudes towards immigrants and a large impact on negative attitudes towards refugees. Moreover, the importance of contextual determinants increased in 2015 and 2016, respectively, followed by a decline in the subsequent period. The analyses also revealed that during the "migration crisis" the impact of specific categories of explanatory variables evolved differently. Furthermore, it was shown that educational attainment, preferred social identity and different historical immigration legacies had a considerably...
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Perceived Inequalities by Immigrant Students in Czechia
Strnadová, Kristýna ; Šanderová, Jadwiga (advisor) ; Grygar, Jakub (referee)
The Diploma thesis presents how teenage students from third countries understand their daily life problems and difficulties which happen to them as a consequence of being a foreigner in a host country. Based on an analysis of ten semi-structural interviews, it is shown that students face several types of problems. The situations mentioned reveal a lack of recognition of their position in the Czech Republic; however, students perceive problems this way rarely. Even though students describe relatively large amount of language and scholastic difficulties, and problems with classmates and unpleasant encounters outside of the school environment, they tend not to see them as inequalities but rather as inevitable situations connected to their status of being a foreigner. They also often understand the problems as individual experiences which do not happen collectively, they see these problems as exceptions and bad luck or as the same problems that Czechs have. Sometimes the problems are seen as inexplicable by the students. Only when an experience is strong enough, they perceive it as a racist behavior or discrimination. Despite the fact that students sometimes demonstrate an inability to react to such behavior, they create several strategies on how to avoid them and how to deal with them. What...
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The current level of research determinants of health by immigrants in the Czech Republic and in Europe
POVOLNÁ, Dagmar
I chose the topic of this thesis because of but also because of bad opinions of the people around me about migration as a problem. The main target of this work is to find out what areas within health determinants among immigrants haven´t been investigated for past 5 years in the Czech Republic and Europe. This target is important for possibilities of further researches of health determinants among immigrants. It may help to researchers with the topic which hasn´t been investigated in past years and there is the opportunity to do so. In the research part of this diploma thesis was selected quantitative method where the technique was comparative metaanalysis. Analysis will be done from available databased journals (Scopus, Pub-med) and available Czech journals (non-databased). The time limit was set on 5 years. In the databases Scopus and Pub-med was searched according to following criterions social determinants of health, immigrants, Europe, Czech Republic with the time limit 5 years of those articles. Contribution of this work is finding out which social determinants of health weren´t investigated at all, which is transport and stress in Europe. In the Czech Republic weren´t any researches executed on stress, childhood, unemployment, nutrition and transport. My diploma thesis contributes further possibilities of investigating for future researchers in investigations which haven´t been done yet.
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A role of a social capital concept within international migration issues
Franclová, Alena ; Drbohlav, Dušan (advisor) ; Marešová, Jarmila (referee)
The main goal of this diploma thesis is analysis of importance of social capital in process of international migration of two migration groups in Czechia. Specifically were researched immigrants from Ukraine and Vietnam living in Czechia and their specifics. The thesis contains of theoretical and empirical parts. The goal of theoretical part is mainly an analysis of related scientific literature and researches. This part of the thesis deals with process of international migration, social capital, social capital in the context of international migration and importance of temperament in relation to international migration. The thesis also provides a brief introduction to history of migration tendencies of both researched groups in Czechia. The following empirical part is based on own questionnaire survey. Respondents were chosen from immigrants who are connected to non-governmental organizations. Collecting of questionnaires was organized as so called "snowball" method of picking of respondents in coordination with cooperating non-governmental organizations. Quantitative statistical analysis of the collected data shows that social capital is an important factor for both studied migration groups, which aids them and which they utilize in all parts of the migration process. No statistically significant...
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Mezinárodní migrační toky z Maroka do Španělska a integrace migrantů
Opluštilová, Eva
Diploma thesis. Mendel university in Brno, Faculty of regional development and international studies. This diploma thesis evaluates migration flows from Morocco to Spain and integration of immigrants based on studying integration indicators such as acces to the Spanish citizenship, acces to the labour market, participation in education and social inclusion. Number of immigrants arriving to Spain has started decreasing since 2007. High unemployment rate is a big problem in Spain. Unemployment rate is one of the indicators of integration. This thesis proposes ideas for the improvement of the current situation in Spain and also proposes the ideas that could be implemented in Czech Republic within the strategy for integration of immigrants.
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Udržitelnost německého ekonomického modelu v globálních politických změnách: migrace jako výzva nebo příležitost
Lacová, Lucia ; Neumann, Pavel (advisor) ; Novotná, Markéta (referee)
This thesis is devoted to the description of the German economy throughout recent decades including the unification and introduction of the euro. The thesis enumerates the basic features of the German economic model and identifies the main policy failures, as well as successes of its government. An important part of this thesis concerns the consequences of the introduction of euro and the subsequent increase in the competitiveness of the German economy at the expense of the other Eurozone members. The main part of this thesis investigates the economic sustainability of the German economic model in the context of the current European refugee crisis. This thesis focuses mainly on the challenges and opportunities brought by the changing global environment and it examines the changing population trends in Germany and the possible scenarios immigrants can cause. It finds opportunities of how the German economic model could be changed towards the better sustainability.
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Russian immigrants in Prague: concentration, integration, cohabitation
Ignatyeva, Ekaterina ; Sýkora, Luděk (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
The diploma thesis explores the relation between the processes of segregation and integration through the study of everyday cohabitation and social interaction that takes place in areas of concentrated Russian immigrants in Prague. Given that some locations of Prague have a long experience with the immigration of Russians, this thesis is reflective of the historical development of the Russian immigration to the First Republic, which in some way to helps to understand and explain the processes taking place presently on the unequal social and legal status of Russians, as immigrants from third countries, perceived through migration and integration policies of the Czech Republic. Analysis of the media's discourse shows the negative impact on Russian immigrants in social interactions with the majority, subsequently reducing integration and deepening social inequality. At the beginning, locations with a significant concentration of Russian immigrants are identified and defined by the quantitative research. Next, the daily interaction among Russian immigrants and the Czech majority is examined in selected locations by the qualitative research. The conclusions discuss how research of everyday cohabitation and social interaction contributed to the understanding of the processes of segregation and the...
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Swedish education system and education of immigrants
Vosejpková, Tereza ; Svobodný, Petr (advisor) ; Young, Mitchell (referee)
Due to open immigration policy Sweden is often target destination of non-European immigrants. Because of that Sweden has to force high share number of immigrants in composition of inhabitants and try to make as homogeneous population as possible, which can be noticeably supported by compulsory education. By way of analysis of education system and its documents as well as insight into contemporary situation, this study should help to understand not only the basic ideas of immigrant education, but also consequences, which are brought by dissimilar education of pupils without knowledge of Swedish language, and consider whether all components of that education are of integration or not.
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The Immigration Policy of David Cameron between the years 2010 and 2015
Paulíková, Veronika ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Rovná, Lenka (referee)
The immigration has became the main topic in many western countries during several past years. This thesis focuses on immigration policy of the United Kingdom, where immigration represents 12,5 % of the whole population. Namely it deals with immigration policy during the premiership of David Cameron in the years 2010 to 2015. This topic is relatively recent, therefore has not been sufficiently explored. Moreover, attention is usually focused on integration policy; as a consequence thesis should contribute to mapping of actual immigration policy in the United Kingdom. This thesis examines which specific changes in immigration policy have been introduced by the government of David Cameron. Immigration policy is analyzed on base of the new Immigration Act and other documents which amended new law, then on the reforms of visa policy. The main objective of the analysis is to map immigration policy of David Cameron and reveal the specific steps taken by the government. The thesis also examines whether the development of immigration policy changes are applied to all immigrants from non-EU countries, or only to a certain type of immigrants. It also rates the achievement of stated goals of the Conservative Party.
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Relationship of Muslim Families Towards Czech School - The Role of Cultural and Religious Specifics in Families from the Middle East
Hrabcová, Marta ; Lorenzová, Jitka (advisor) ; Sedláčková, Daniela (referee)
The thesis Relationships of Muslim Families towards Czech School - The Role of Cultural and Religious Specifics in Families from the Middle East is a theoretical-empirical thesis focused on Muslim immigrant families living in Czech Republic whose children attend common Czech state schools and their perception of the Czech school system. The goal of the thesis is to determine what the relation of Muslim family is and how is influenced by the religious and cultural specifics. The object of the theoretical part is to convey the basic background for understanding the complex situation of the target group. The first chapter shows the families as the participants in the processes of migration and intercultural communication, the next one deals with the role of school as an environment of integration and the last chapter of this part describes essential characteristics of Islam and the Muslim community in Czech Republic. The object of the empirical part is to describe the influence of cultural and religious specifics on the Muslim families' review of experiences with Czech school. Interviews with the selected families and open and axial coding were used as the research method in this thesis. The results of the research are presented in several main sections. Those are: adjustment of the Czech education...
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