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Attitudes of the Czech public towards migration and international migrants
Šimková, Tereza ; Drbohlav, Dušan (advisor) ; Marešová, Jarmila (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to analyze the attitudes of Czech society towards migration and international migrants in the context of the migration crisis between 2014, 2015 and 2017. The basic theoretical premises are mainly based on the theory of group threats, the theory of social identity, the contact hypothesis and socio-demographic characteristics. Using the analysis of the preferences of the Czech public towards individual immigration groups, the work will reveal changes in respondents' likes and dislikes. The conclusion will focus on the behavior of the respondents in the crisis and analyze which groups of respondents have changed their sympathies and antipathies towards individual migration groups and evaluate the conditional factors that influenced the attitudes of the respondents. The thesis draws on data from nationwide research of the Center for Public Opinion Research of the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i. commissioned by the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development of Charles University in 2014, 2015 and 2017. Key words International migration, public attitudes, migration crisis, sympathy and antipathy, cultural toleration, Czechia.
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