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Determinant of Migration Among Africans in the Czech Republic
Adenuga, Yinka Azeez ; Menclová, Barbora (vedoucí práce) ; Richard, Anne-Isabelle (oponent)
European Politics and Society: Václav Havel Joint Master Programme CHARLES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Institute of International Studies Department of European Studies Master's Thesis 2023 Yinka Adenuga European Politics and Society: Václav Havel Joint Master Programme CHARLES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Institute of International Studies Department of European Studies DETERMINANT OF MIGRATION AMONG AFRICANS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC Master's Thesis Author: Yinka Azeez Adenuga, 48318753 (CUNI) Supervisor: PhDr. Barbora Menclová, Ph.D. Year of the Defence: 2023 ABSTRACT This study deals with African migrants in the Czech Republic. Given the absence of general knowledge about African migrants in the Czech Republic, it contributes to the knowledge production of African migrants by examining the general features of their composition and structures in the Czech Republic. More primarily, this study deals with the motivation for migration among Africans who chose the Czech Republic as their destination. Understanding the determinants of African migration in the Czech Republic remains poor and insufficient, as there is little empirical study that has specifically examined the determinants of migration among Africans in the Czech Republic. As a result, this study is a novel study that aims to...
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Between theory and practice: The African Peace Facility and the securitization of EU development policy
Siebel, Lea Melody Pauline Ingeborg ; Richard, Anne-Isabelle (vedoucí práce) ; Karagiannis, Yannis (oponent)
The African Peace Facility (APF), recently replaced by the European Peace Facility, was the EU's primary mechanism to fund African-led peace and security operations. The Facility introduced several changes to EU policy, including a new funding structure: The APF was financed by the European Development Fund, even though the Facility was ineligible as Official Development Assistance. This sparked a debate among policymakers and academic scholars about whether the APF has securitized EU development policy. However, many studies neglect the security-development nexus, which played a central role in the Facility. The thesis analyses securitizing practices which are distinct from the approach suggested by the classic securitization theory (i.e., the speech act). Through an in-depth analysis of primary and secondary sources, this thesis attempts to unpack the extent to which the APF securitized EU development policy. The analysis finds evidence of securitization but also of a developmentization of security policy, demonstrating how the Facility constantly oscillated between security and development and concludes that the APF embodied the securitydevelopment nexus. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The European Commission: a Champion in Gender Mainstreaming?
Procoli, Michela ; Richard, Anne-Isabelle (vedoucí práce) ; Warat, Marta (oponent)
The term "gender mainstreaming" was coined during the Fourth World Conference on Women, which took place in September 1995 in Beijing. Since then, it has been embraced by various political actors on the national and international realms, as it was agreed that it would represent the principal global strategy to combat gender inequality. But what is gender mainstreaming? The most linear and clear definition of gender mainstreaming was drafted by Teresa Rees, who describes it as "the promotion of gender equality through its systematic integration into all systems and structures, into all policies, processes and procedures, into the organization and its culture, into ways of seeing and doing." (Rees 2005) At the European level, it has been described as consisting of "the introduction by governments and EU-institutional actors of a gender perspective into all policies and programs, in order not only to analyze their effects on women and men before decisions are taken, but also to implement, evaluate, and review policies and political processes taking gender into account". (Lombardo and Meier 2008) Gender mainstreaming has been considered to be potentially revolutionary. However, many scholars have criticized its application (as will be explained in the literature review), stating that, while the concept could...
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