Sociální integrace imigrantů na rozhraní mezi dočasnou migrací a trvalým usazením

• Authors: Josef Bernard , Renáta Mikešová

Title variants

EN

The Socio-cultural Integration of Immigrants: In Between Temporary Migration and Permanent Settlement

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article examines the integration process of Ukrainians and Vietnamese in the Czech Republic. The authors focus on socio-cultural integration, the pre- and post-migration factors integration depends on, and the differences in the integration process of the two communities. Using survey data they show that the integration process of each group follows a different trajectory and depends on different factors. Ukrainians tend to be more integrated than Vietnamese. The primary factor influencing the level of integration of Ukrainian migrants is the length of residence in the Czech Republic. Household composition and the residential preferences of Ukrainians play a secondary role. On average Vietnamese immigrants have resided longer in the Czech Republic, but the increasing length of residence has a much weaker effect on the level of socio-cultural integration of members of this community. The residential preferences of Vietnamese immigrants and especially the age at which they arrived in the Czech Republic are important factors in their integration. Those Vietnamese immigrants who arrived as children are significantly more integrated than those who arrived as adults. These results suggest that the socio-cultural integration of Vietnamese immigrants depends primarily on socialisation in the Czech Republic.

Keywords

EN

integration of immigrants; labour migration; Czech Republic; socio-cultural integration; dimensions of assimilation

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 521-546
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Josef Bernard

author

Renáta Mikešová

• Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., oddělení Lokální a regionální studia, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.13060/00380288.2014.50.4.107