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Immigration and City: Integration Policies in Berlin and Vienna 1971-2011
Dimitrov, Michal ; Pešek, Jiří (advisor) ; Klípa, Ondřej (referee) ; Zimmermann, Volker (referee)
The doctoral thesis compares and interprets the development of local integration policies of (West) Berlin and Vienna in 1971-2011 on the background of the transformation of Germany and Austria from ethnically homogenous to multicultural countries. Both metropolises first balanced between refusing the permanent integration of immigrants ("temporary integration") and selection of foreigners suitable for integration, later searched for a balance between the traditional concept of assimilation and the more modern multicultural approach; in the last decade they favoured the diversity policy, in more or less close connection to the concept of interculturalism. Although both cities represent essentially similar cases, this development was not straightforward and simultaneous, especially in the first phase before the migration crisis at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. The research study focuses mainly on two questions: why the development of local integration policy in West Berlin started significantly earlier than in Vienna and why both cities started to support diversity policy at the beginning of the new century. The comparative framework derived from the "contrast of contexts" method interprets the development of local integration policies in the context of the national and transnational political...
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Quebec Integration Policy since Quiet Revolution
Pluhařová, Jana ; Fiřtová, Magdalena (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deals with the issue of Quebec integration policy since the Quiet Revolution. Analyzing the dynamics between immigration, identity and integration in Quebec, it suggests that the changing identity played a central role in the formulation of Quebec integration policy. The thesis aims to discover whether Quebec identity and its transformation determined the formation of the integration policy and also tries to determine how the transformation of ethnic to civic identity influenced the integration policy. After the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, Quebec passed through a dynamic transformation of its identity not only in relation to the federal state of Canada, but also in relation to itself. Situated as a nation within a nation, Quebec is in a unique position. The provincial government decided to reject the Canadian federal policy of multiculturalism, which does not recognize Quebecers as a distinct ethnic group and rejects the principle of a bicultural Canada. Quebec has introduced its own integration model called interculturalism, which was influenced by its dichotomic identity and its transformation.
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Immigration and City: Integration Policies in Berlin and Vienna 1971-2011
Dimitrov, Michal ; Pešek, Jiří (advisor) ; Klípa, Ondřej (referee) ; Zimmermann, Volker (referee)
The doctoral thesis compares and interprets the development of local integration policies of (West) Berlin and Vienna in 1971-2011 on the background of the transformation of Germany and Austria from ethnically homogenous to multicultural countries. Both metropolises first balanced between refusing the permanent integration of immigrants ("temporary integration") and selection of foreigners suitable for integration, later searched for a balance between the traditional concept of assimilation and the more modern multicultural approach; in the last decade they favoured the diversity policy, in more or less close connection to the concept of interculturalism. Although both cities represent essentially similar cases, this development was not straightforward and simultaneous, especially in the first phase before the migration crisis at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. The research study focuses mainly on two questions: why the development of local integration policy in West Berlin started significantly earlier than in Vienna and why both cities started to support diversity policy at the beginning of the new century. The comparative framework derived from the "contrast of contexts" method interprets the development of local integration policies in the context of the national and transnational political...
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The Politics of Multiculturalism and Interculturalism and the Czech Perspective
Voslář, Václav ; Gelnarová, Jitka (advisor) ; Kotábová, Věra (referee)
The topic of this bachelor's thesis is multiculturalism and interculturalism policy and the possibilities of its use in the Czech Republic. The main goal of the thesis is to show whether the multiculturalism and interculturalism policy, which is defined by this thesis, is able to solve problems of ethnic minorities in Czech society. First, a model of policy is created based on the synthesis of various theories of multiculturalism and interculturalism. To do that, basic assumption is that concepts of multiculturalism and interculturalism do not carry a stigma in Czech society as they do in other regions and that it is possible to let them work together in a coherent model. Second, this thesis deals with the Czech debate on the topic of multiculturalism and with the troubles of ethnic minorities in Czech society, particularly immigrant minorities and Roma minority. Third, particular documents containing the concepts of immigrant and Roma integration adopted by Czech government are analyzed. In these documents, the steps towards the multiculturalism and interculturalism policy are pointed out. Afterwards, these steps are considered as measures to deal with problems of immigrant minorities and Roma minority in the Czech Republic.
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Quebec Integration Policy since Quiet Revolution
Pluhařová, Jana ; Fiřtová, Magdalena (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deals with the issue of Quebec integration policy since the Quiet Revolution. Analyzing the dynamics between immigration, identity and integration in Quebec, it suggests that the changing identity played a central role in the formulation of Quebec integration policy. The thesis aims to discover whether Quebec identity and its transformation determined the formation of the integration policy and also tries to determine how the transformation of ethnic to civic identity influenced the integration policy. After the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, Quebec passed through a dynamic transformation of its identity not only in relation to the federal state of Canada, but also in relation to itself. Situated as a nation within a nation, Quebec is in a unique position. The provincial government decided to reject the Canadian federal policy of multiculturalism, which does not recognize Quebecers as a distinct ethnic group and rejects the principle of a bicultural Canada. Quebec has introduced its own integration model called interculturalism, which was influenced by its dichotomic identity and its transformation.
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The Meeting of Czech and American Cultures in Managerial Practices
Bátorek, Miroslav Štefan ; Nový, Ivan (advisor) ; Říha, David (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis is to provide a comprehensive picture of Czech and American cultures, not only in their interaction. This picture will be the basis for learning and understanding of both cultures and their mutual differences. A detection of cultural specificities, their clarification and explanation of their causes is a fundamental concern of this thesis. The main issue of the research is to uncover cultural differences and related cultural clashes. The second aim of the diploma thesis is building a list of potential cultural clashes and final recommendations for the Czechs to know how to prevent these conflicts.
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Intercultural coexistence of Czech living in Berlin
MAZUROVÁ, Dominika
This bachelor thesis is focused on intercultural coexistence in the background of life of Czech female in Berlin. Thesis will deal with intercultural and multicultural issues in the Czech Republic and attempts comparison with the situation in Germany, especially in Berlin. More noticable are increasingly strong voices against the idea of intercultural coexistence. Bachelor thesis will therefore partly explain whether is the idea of intercultural coexistence feasible and how this issue looks in the eyes of the author's friends from different countries. The theoretical part will highlight the development of interculturalism from a historical perspective and its current perception. Marginally compares the most opressive problems of interculturalism of selected countries.
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Integration Problem of Immigrants in Spain in Comparison with the Situation in the Czech republic
ČÍŽKOVÁ, Jindřiška
The work deals with the integration problem of immigrants in the Czech Republic and Spain. The theoretical part characterizes the three most populous groups of immigrants in both countries. Then it describes the integration of immigrants from the point of view of the European Union, the Czech Republic and Spain. Next chapter concerns the risks and boons of imigration. The last part contains the findings about psychological problems of emigration. The practical part contains two comparisons. There is a description and comparison of two non-govermental and non-profit organizations, Spanish organization Valencia Acoge and Czech organization Poradna pro integraci (Counselling Centre for Integration). These two ONGs focus on the integration of imigrants to society. In the second part I used the method of questionary investigation. Both, the Spanish and Czech people, were asked about their attitude to the problem of the integration of immigrants.
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