Vystěhovalectví z českých zemí na Krym

• Authors: Pavel Havránek

Title variants

EN

Emigration from Czech Lands to Crimea Region

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study focuses on the compatriot community in Ukraine, particularly on the Crimea peninsula. In the introduction, attention is paid to the history of settlement of southern Ukraine by the Czech ethnic group in the 1860s. The reasons which made several hundreds of people leave their home region, their mother country, the initial problems they had to deal with in the new land, adaptation to the new living conditions, etc. are further discussed. Apart from the past, this essay also covers the present situation. This is the period when the former Czech villages have become multinational, while the Czechs do not form the majority population in any of them as they used to in the past. In spite of the gradual irrepressible process of assimilation, the Czech Republic tries to help its compatriots. This concerns above all the funding of reconstruction of associational buildings, purchase of their equipment, assistance with organizing compatriot meetings and so on. the main emphasis is, however, on the field of education, especially on Czech language retention.

Keywords

EN

Czechs and Ukrainians; emigration; compatriot community

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 24_(66)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 83-99
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pavel Havránek

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic