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How discriminatory is the housing market in Slovakia: experimental investigation.
Sacherová, Kristína ; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara (advisor) ; Kopečná, Vědunka (referee)
Housing discrimination is a widespread, but markedly underrated issue that is associated with diverse treatment of applicants for real estate's sale or rent based on their affiliation to some minority in society. Although there have been many experiments and studies conducted to uncover and measure the presence of discrimination mostly for African Americans in the US and Arabs in several European countries, such extensive researches for the Europe's largest ethnic minority, Roma, are lacking. This thesis presents an Internet field experiment on discrimination of Roma in the Slovak housing market which uses matched-pair method and four fictitious male applicants to request for a flat or house showing based on an online advert. In total, 396 requests were sent from email addresses with specific names signalizing ethnicity of applicants and the response rate was examined. Data shows that the applicants with Roma-sounding email addresses are 8 to 9.5% less likely to get an invitation for a showing compared to the applicants with the Slovak sounding email addresses. My analysis also suggests that the highest level of discrimination is found in the districts with median Roma contribution (specifically from 3 to 11%). Considering all my findings, it can be eventually concluded that in the Slovak housing...
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Media Portrayal of the Riots in the North Bohemia in 2011
Zůnová, Barbora ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Hájek, Roman (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the media portrayal of the 2011 riots in the north of Bohemia in selected media: the most read serious newspaper Mladá fronta DNES, the tabloid newspaper Blesk, which is at the same time the most read daily in the Czech Republic, and the news website Romea.cz, which is focused on the Roma minority. In summer 2011 there were two attacks on people from ethnic majority by groups of Roma in the north of Bohemia. Lots of riots and demonstrations followed there. In the theoretical part, the thesis focuses on the history of the Roma minority in the Czech Republic, as well as their current situation, the media construction of reality and stereotypes in media, especially about ethnic minorities. The next part of the thesis contains a qualitative study of the selected media, which analyses how the media referred to the riots and whether there were some stereotypes about Roma in the articles. Subsequently, there were several problematic ways of referring to the riots identified within the analyzed media. Stereotypes about the Roma minority appeared most often in Mladá fronta DNES. In Blesk and Romea.cz the reporters were trying more often to offer their readers a balanced point of view. However, the news coverage of the riots by the Romea.cz was unbalanced, because very often...
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Models of Representation of Ethnic Minorities at Local Level: Case Studies of Selected European Cities
Vimmr, Martin Kryšpín ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
This thesis further analyses the question of political representation of ethnic minorities. Its main theoretical framework is created by theory of cleavages by S. Rokkan and S.M. Lipset, which describes conflict lines within the society and its influence on the party system. Further on, different definitions and approaches to the topic of ethnic identity, ethnic conflict and and ethnic and regional parties are introduced. Second part of this thesis is composed of four case studies of selected European cities with relevant ethnic minorities. These are Leicester in United Kingdom, Espoo in Finland, German Frankfurt am Main and Romanian Cluj-Napoca. These cases are firstly analyzed by context of political representation of ethnic minorities. That is in the first place the share and nature of minority population and in the second place attributes of local political systems within both horizontal and vertical dimension. Factors with direct impact on political representation of ethnic minorities like electoral system, election right and any other special measures are analyzed further on.
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British Riots 2011 - Comparison with the 1981 Riots
Kubešková, Anna ; Rovná, Lenka (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis "British Riots 2011 - Comparison with the 1981 Riots" deals with the unrest in the British society during the summer of 2011. It compares the riots of 2011 with the events of 1981 in England. The thesis aims to identify the main similarities and differences between these two events and analyse the change in British society during the thirty years in. The riots in 2011 started with protests after a police shooting on an African British citizen in London which then spread to other English cities. The unrest in the year 1981 had a very similar beginning as well and it progressed in a similar way. The most important aspects of the riots are compared from the perspective of ethnicity and age, through the social and economic problems of these years, and the thesis also touches on the sensitive question of immigration. A special chapter deals with a particularly unique aspect of the riots of 2011 - social media and modern communication technologies that might have been used by the rioters in order to organize the unrest. This thesis was written on the basis of research derived from politicians, journalists and academics and other specialists.
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Discrimination in a multicultural society as a pedagogical problem
Střelková, Simona ; Kasíková, Hana (advisor) ; Tvrzová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis is focused on the problem of discrimination in education and generally in the Czech republic. In the theoretical section are explained the main concepts of discrimination, racism and xenophobia. It also contains basic laws with discriminatory issues. Next it deals with the description of a multicultural society, which builds on multicultural education, which helps children better understand and tolerate the minority in the Czech republic. The practical part is processed on the basis of a questionnaire designed for three types of schools (rural, urban, metropolitan) and determines the orientation of students of selected schools in foreign issues and maps their opinions, attitudes and experience with minorities. Key words: discrimination, rasism, rasism violence, xenofoby, multicultural education, multicultural society, human rights
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The Possibilities of Political Participation of the Roma minority in the Czech Republic
Hon, Matěj ; Říchová, Blanka (advisor) ; Gelnarová, Jitka (referee)
In this thesis, the author raises the following question: What is the nature of the efforts of Romani elites at political participation in the Czech Republic and what is their potential? He presupposes that those currents of the Roma ethno-emancipation movement that are not defined sharply against the surrounding society are in a better position. He summarizes the basic facts from the history of the Roma in the Czech Republic with an overlap into the Central European context. He monitors the factors relevant to the examination of political acts of the Roma and subsequently characterizes their own understanding of ethnicity, showing that kinship and sub-ethnic groups are more important for the collective identification of most of the Roma. The theoretical part deals with selected authors who participated in the discussions on multiculturalism, both on the general, international, and on the national level, with special focus on Roma issues. In the final chapter the author tries to apply all the described knowledge to the three most significant projects of the Roma, through which the Romani elites engage in public affairs in the Czech Republic. They are the Union of Gypsies- Roma from the break of 1960s and 1970s, the Roma Civic Initiative, a party active in the 90s, and a civic association called...
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The Identity of Czech Deaf Roma
Kalousová, Josefina ; Nováková, Radka (advisor) ; Šormová, Kateřina (referee)
With the definition of Deaf people as a cultural and linguistic minority the research of Deaf identity became possible. Following this, questions of identity of minority deaf persons emerged. Do these persons affiliate to the Deaf community or to their ethnic minority? This bachelor thesis focuses on the topic of Czech deaf Roma identity. The underlying assumption of the paper is that identity is a continuing process dependent on the interaction of an individual and society and that it constitutes of various levels different form each other. The research the thesis is based on aimed to collect data about experience, opinions and attitudes of deaf Roma. In analyzing the collected data, the process of identity development in these individuals was explored. Deaf community and Deaf culture is described from different perspectives and the results of present research of deaf minority members is summarized in this thesis.
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The role of Ainu minority in contemporary Japan - a comparative view
Barva, Ondřej ; Sýkora, Jan (advisor) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
The theme of this work is an introduction to the situation of indigenous people of Japan, Ainu, in contemporary Japan. At the beginning of this work I briefly comprehended the history of Japanese-Ainu relations from the very beginning until the resolution calling for the Recognition of the Ainu as Indigenous Peoples of Japan which was adopted by the Japanese government on the 6th June, 2008. In the next chapters I wrote about the Indigenous Peoples Summit in Ainu Moshir in 2008 and briefly summarized two related documents - the Nibutani Declaration and An Appeal to the Japanese Government. In the following chapters I wrote about the Role of Ainu minority in Contemporary Japan and about ways, how the Ainu culture is presented to the general public.
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