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Czech Immigration in Chile after 1948
Žofka, Václav ; Opatrný, Josef (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
The diploma thesis named "The czech immigration to Chile after the year 1948: Three case studies" focuses on the emigration of the citizens of former state of Czechoslovakia to various countries of Latin America. In the case of this paper namely to Chile - a country that accepted together with other countries of the region, specifically Argentina and Brasil, a significant number of the emigrants from the post-war Europe. The main emphasis is placed on the czech immigration to this latin-american country after the year 1948, which implies the period after the so called coup d'état in Czechoslovakia which finished the division of the european continent into the "capitalist" western part of Europe cooperating with the United States of America and the communist eastern part under the supremacy of the Soviet union. There was a lot of people that had chosen to cross the ocean and emigrate from the the middle- and eastern european countries, where the rapid and sometimes violent changes took place. The case studies of three czech families (Platovský, Sklenář and Reichmann) which came from different social, economic and religious background, prove that whatever the "origin" was, the czech families did not get lost in their new countries (in this case in Chile) thanks to their diligence and skills, and they...
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