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The role of municipalities in the integration policy of the Czech republic
Dohnalová, Eva ; Šámalová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Topinka, Daniel (referee) ; Mikulcová, Kateřina (referee)
The integration of migrants and ensuring social cohesion have become one of the main social and political issues of EU countries in the 21st century, including the Czech Republic, where migrants already account for about 10 % of the Czech population in 2022, including Ukrainian refugees. The experience of countries with a long immigration history confirms that local governments play a crucial role in integration. This dissertation focuses on the description and analysis of the role of cities in the integration policy of the Czech Republic. The theoretical part deals with the conceptualisation of social integration and policies towards migrants at the national and municipal level. It also documents the current level of knowledge in the field of local integration policies in EU countries with a long immigration history and finally analyses the setting of integration policy in the Czech Republic, in particular the context of the role of local governments. The empirical part aims to describe and analyse the approaches of the selected six cities to the integration of foreigners both in the declarative and in the implementation level and at the same time to reflect the attitudes of the political and professional representation of the cities towards this target group. The thesis also focuses on the...
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Identities and Lives of Muslim Youth in the Czech Republic
Bhardwaj, Shreya ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Topinka, Daniel (referee) ; Ricucci, Roberta (referee)
The research presents the first such account of the experiences of six Muslim migrant youth in the Czech Republic. For the purposes of this research, the data was collected for a period of almost a year. Starting in mid-2019, I pursued ethnographic research with Muslim migrant youth aged 17-22, hailing from Syria, Iran, Yemen, and Italy. Using semi-structured interviews as a primary mode of data collection and participant observations, we have explored topics related to gender, belonging, ethnicity and religion. I have aimed to look at their stories to investigate how the systems within which the youth exist operate, influencing their quotidian experiences. By putting them at the centre of their narratives, I have striven to understand how the youth navigate, negotiate, and, in return, agentially influence the systems and structures around them. An overarching conclusion points to how migration issues the youth into quotidian experiences of racism, exploitation, exploration, reaching and belonging, even as global citizens. Across this dissertation, I have argued the youth can not be conceptualized as passive recipients of migration processes, with different responses to their credit. And as such, owing to their organization as age and generation-based cohorts, the youth can position themselves as a...
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