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Anti-islamic movements in eastern Germany: PEGIDA and its Development
Mojžíš, Radek ; Emler, David (advisor) ; Handl, Vladimír (referee)
This master thesis deals with the development of the protest movement PEGIDA, which was founded on October 11. 2014 in Dresden. This movement speaks loudly against the Islamization of Germany during the regular demonstrations and criticizes the political situation in the country. In times of its greatest popularity it has attracted thousands of people. Nowadays its importance is still diminishing. The aim is therefore to describe the development of the movement and its characteristics. The work is divided into four main chapters. The first one explains the development in Saxony, the second one describes the development of the movement and its programmatics. It also contains the change of relationship towards Alternative für Deutschland (AfD): from an animosity into an open collaboration. PEGIDA was created as a Facebook group: with tools like Google Trends and Fanpage Karma this chapter analyzes its evolution in an online world. It also shows a declining search rate on Google and its popularity on Facebook. The last chapter is based on studies conducted among demonstrators concerning their demographic data and their views on the functioning of democracy and politics. It follows that most Pegidists do not believe in political representation and see an AfD as an alternative. The stagnation of the...
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Fenomén uprchlictví a možnosti jeho využití v interaktivní výuce
ŠONKOVÁ, Eva
The submitted diploma thesis is focused on the refugee phenomenon and its classification among international migration issues as such, while the interest is focused mainly on immigration from third-world countries into European Union, accenting the Czech Republic. In this context, causes of growing tendency in international protection applicant and economic migrant numbers, but also responses caused by this fact, are being discussed. To enable a closer look at the multi-ethnic co-habitation character, there is secondary empirical data outlining the current situation of the majority´s relationship towards the ethnic and national plurality with regard to migration crisis given on the one hand, and determinants influencing the creation of different citizen attitudes on the other hand. Last but not least, there is some space left for chosen interactive education methods and didactic material based on them, which is useful when teaching about the controversial refugee issue in lessons of Civics.
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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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The impact of the so called Islamic State on Italy
Császtová, Bibiána ; Eichler, Jan (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
The aim of this work was to determine the existence and size of the influence of the so called Islamic State to Italy. The Islamic State is currently one of the biggest problems in international relations. The work assumed that due to its important geopolitical location, Italy is affected by the Islamic State. The secondary objective is to raise awareness of this issue, as the whole world is focused on other countries, such as Germany. The outcome of the work was the detection of two main impacts, namely refugee crisis and foreign fighters. Moreover, the work has attempted to find solutions to these impacts.
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Migration crisis in years 2015 a 2016: National interest as the basic pillar of attitude towards migration in Hungary and Slovak Republic
Korcsogová, Lucia ; Novotná, Markéta (advisor) ; Werner, Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the asylum policy in the European Union, respectively Hungary and the Slovak Republic during the refugee crisis in years 2015 and 2016. The first chapter as theoretical basis uses the definition of national interest of Petr Kratochvíl. It follows with definitions of the most commonly used terms in asylum policy and introduces the changes in asylum policy and migratory trends of Hungary and the Slovak Republic after the accession to the European Union and the Schengen area. On selected events the attitude towards the refugee crisis of the Hungarian and Slovak government is analyzed, and whether their intentions can be considered as national interest according to presented criteria. These selected events are the refusal to accept refugees under mandatory quotas, the referendum against the reception of asylum seekers and the states´ response to criticism of international organizations.
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The Establishment and Development of Asylum Policies in East Central Europe
Hoffstädt, Jord Malte ; Vykoukal, Jiří (advisor) ; Najšlová, Lucia (referee)
In the light of the current refugee crisis in the European Union, and the remarkably critical stance the East Central European states are taking in Brussels, this research contributes to a broader understanding of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland's policies towards refugees. By scrutinizing the process of developing refugee policies during the 1990s and 2000s, the research will demonstrate that the countries united in the V4 platform in their first years of transition generously contributed to international refugee protection. Steep increase of asylum applicants and negotiation talks with the EU in the late 1990s brought various changes to the refugee policies in the region, marked by more closely defining and the enhancing of asylum seekers' and recognized refugees' rights, but also by lower refugee recognition rates. Accession to the European Union ultimately resulted in more complete and comprehensive asylum policies in line with the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). However, the V4 states maintained rather restrictive interpretations of the European policy, explained by the pressure the CEAS places on the states at the EU's external border and lower economic capacity to accommodate large numbers of refugees. Recent developments are mostly the result of political exploitation...
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Securitization of Immigration and Multiculturalism: The Case Study of Germany
Nguyen, Van Anh ; Šánová, Lucie (advisor) ; Kučera, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the process of securitization of immigration and multiculturalism within the framework of migration, immigration and integration policies focusing on the case of Germany. Using the migration-security nexus as a primary theoretical foundation, I argue that within the policies and legislations related to immigration, German governments ultimately perceive immigration as a threat at the level of state security as well as Germany's national identity. The first government I have selected for my analysis is the cabinet led by Gerhard Schröder (1998 - 2005) who challenged the romanticized perception of the German nation as a "nation of descent" by saying that "Germany is a country of immigration." Secondly, I focus on the chancellorship of Angela Merkel whose approach toward the Syrian asylum seekers in the context of the current migration crisis (9/2015 - 11/2016) has been called "Wilkommenskutlur" (or "Welcome culture"). Nonetheless, by studying the policies related to immigration as well as governments' discourses, I argue that in both cases, immigration and multiculturalism are indeed linked to security issues. Hence, immigrants are perceived as a threat to Germany's national security and its identity.
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Legal analysis on the management of the refugee crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany
Sikorská, Eliška ; Grmelová, Nicole (advisor) ; Kříž, Radim (referee)
This thesis analyzes the management of refugee crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany in relation to the applicable law of the European Union. In theoretical introduction, the thesis focuses on the definition of key concepts and the related areas of EU law. The second part is devoted to the policy of the Federal Republic of Germany led by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and the actions adopted. In the last part, these actions are analyzed in accordance with the main research question of this thesis, namely whether Germany is dealing with the immigrant crisis in accordance with the law of the European Union.
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European Agenda on Migration and its impact on the European Integration with focus on Germany
HRBKOVÁ, Kristina
The bachelor thesis focuses on impact analyses of the European Agenda on Migration (hereinafter referred to as EAM) and its particular policies, including the way of their adoption and implementation, on the European integration. The EAM containing a package of measures and policies was set up by the European Commission in May 2015 for managing and solving of the today´s migration crisis and for revision of the whole European system of migration, asylum and border management. Although there are long-term integrating tendencies it the area of justice and home affairs, understanding and interpretation of the policies, capability and political willingness to implement the program create within the EU two completely contradictory tendencies. Although most of the policies are intended to lead directly towards deeper European integration in the area of justice and home affairs, their real implementation, either due to political or practical reasons, is questioning further deepening of the European integration. For instance, relocation mechanisms which are supposed to support an idea of burden sharing among the Member States and thus this concept should have led to further European integration, has under current state more dividing effect on the EU. With respect to the orientation of the study program at the South Bohemia University, a role of Germany, as a leader of the Union next to the EU institutions, from different perspectives, in the whole process of adoption and implementation of the EAM is being analysed.
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the Role of FRONTEX in the European refugee crisis
Fridrichová, Katrin ; Novotná, Markéta (advisor) ; Rolenc, Jan Martin (referee)
The bachelor thesis aims to elaborate the role of Frontex agency and its sufficiency in coping with the migration crisis. The criteria chosen were quantitative aspects (the budget and the number of detentions of illegal border crossings over the external borders), and qualitative aspects evaluated with content analysis based on proclamations of the representatives of European bodies (European Council, European Parliament and European Commission) in the year 2015. Main designated activities were operational, on the base of the analysis of agency´s mandate. Therefore, the main role of the agency is both coordination and assistant. The rule, that member states and their border forces are responsible for external borders protection, still applies. This statement is the main problematic issue and despite Frontex has been successful in its role, all the investigated European institutions agrees that the mandate of the agency should be inevitably strengthened to improve protection of external borders.
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