Review article
Migratory Trends in the Czech Republic: “Divergence or Convergence” vis-a-vis the Developed World?
Dušan Drbohlav
; Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract
The main goal of this paper is to analyse whether the geopolitical and socio-economic integration and “harmonisation” of the Czech Republic with Western Europe is accompanied by a divergence or convergence of the Czech migratory reality vis-a-vis the developed western world. When testing resemblance two kinds of measurements are used: 1) quantitative – (in terms of the numbers of international migrants, and 2) “qualitative” – a) in terms of regularities linked with the migration itself and those that tackle mutual relationships among immigration, the socio-economic development of the destination country and subjective attitudes of the majority population towards minority groups: 3 hypotheses are tested in this regard; b) in terms of migratory policies and practices. The results clearly show us that convergence rather than divergence is characteristic of the current migratory trends in the Czech Republic as compared to the developed world, mainly Western Europe.
Keywords
migration; transition; integration; migratory conditionality; migratory policies
Hrčak ID:
107373
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Publication date:
30.9.2002.
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