Along with other Central and Eastern European counties, Czechia has invested significant effort in deterring refugees from entering the country during the ‘refugee crisis’. This article sheds light on the role of the media in legitimising anti-refugee policies by analysing the politicised discourse on refugees in 900 articles published in Czech newspapers between 2014 and 2016. The findings indicate that refugees were depicted as a security threat and an administrative burden partly imposed by the European Union. The article discusses the policy implications of depicting refugees in this way and thus broadens the literature on European narratives during the refugee emergency in Europe.
Perspectives on migrant integration differ by time and place. This article examines this vague concept to shed light on how its evolution over time has shaped the current conceptions of migrant integration in the EU and the Czech Republic. It describes the situation in the Czech Republic and the country's normative goals in the field of migrant integration. While the country has explicit integration priorities in place, there is no evaluation of their fulfilment. The article explores whether these priorities are indeed fulfilled and from what sources by analysing a unique dataset of 3061 projects in the field of migrant integration. All these projects were implemented in the Czech Republic between 2010 and 2019. The results show that although funding for migrant integration has increased since 2016, even taking into account the long-term increase in the number of migrants in the Czech Republic, funding in support of these priorities is allocated very unevenly. European funding remains crucial. Among the most supported priorities is knowledge of the Czech language and education. There is also some support in the social field. By contrast, the issues of discrimination, equal rights, foreign nationals' access to health care, and the development of professional skills receive hardly any support. The results thus show a discrepancy between the priorities that have been set and their fulfilment, especially in the area of activities targeting the majority society and its institutions. The declared two-sidedness to the process of integration process thus remains a somewhat unsupported vision.
In all the advanced countries, there is a higher frequency of occupational injuries in foreigners compared to the majority population. The foreigners are not exposed to a significantly higher health risk during their employment, but the nature of the work performed by them contributes to the risk. Given the fact that foreigners account for nearly 3% of the total frequency of occupational injuries in the Czech Republic, based on certain investigations, it is possible to believe that the occurrence of their injuries is actually considerably higher and the injuries are considerably more frequent. A similar situation can also be expected in occupational diseases. The qualitative examination performed among the Mongolian population in the Czech Republic concerning the occupational effects on the health of migrants presented here is based on this hypothesis. The primary target of the present study was an analysis of occupational effects on the health of Mongolian migrants followed and relationships of these findings to available information on foreigners and occupational safety. The secondary target was finding of relationships between impacts of the work on the health and type of employment or condition of stay of the migrants. The data obtained are based on information from thirty-six semi-structured interviews with Mongolian migrants, which were analyzed by an analytical coding procedure in terms of grounded theory. The results supported the fact that a considerable proportion (almost two thirds) of the migrants followed worked under conditions endangering the health according to their own opinions. Injuries of limbs occurred most frequently, cases of poisoning from inhaled vapours of adhesives or frostbites being also frequent. In terms of the work and health a group of migrants employed through the mediation of agencies exerted most problems. In general, in addition to health consequences, occupational injuries or effects of work on the migrant health also included considerable problems for the stay of migrants in the Czech Republic, most frequently resulting in departure from the country or stay without the visa.
The article deals with the migration of 500,000 Ukrainian refugees to Czechia after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. The study examines the challenges municipalities had to deal with in connection with the reception of Ukrainian refugees. For this, a primary questionnaire survey, statistical analysis of the obtained data, and analysis of documents were conducted. An original historical-processual and retrograde approach was used to explain the genesis and development of the refugees’ reception. A two-dimensional model (matrix) was developed to find out how municipalities dealt with the reception of refugees. The main contribution of this study is the development of a typology of different approaches of actors in multilevel governance to dealing with the emergent situation and empirically supported conclusions as to how well municipalities have managed to coexist with the newly arrived Ukrainians. The study thus provides a unique insight into what issues municipalities are dealing with and how difficult it is for them to manage this rather unusual situation.
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