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RESEARCH PAPER
Is Czechia an immigration country? Evidence from civic integration policies
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Department of European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czech Republic
Submission date: 2022-08-26
Final revision date: 2022-12-30
Acceptance date: 2023-01-04
Online publication date: 2023-04-13
Publication date: 2023-04-13
Corresponding author
Anna Lukešová
Department of European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Pekařská 10, 15800, Prague, Czech Republic
Department of European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Pekařská 10, 15800, Prague, Czech Republic
Problemy Polityki Społecznej 2022;59(4):267-287
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ABSTRACT
In Western Europe, the first integration policies emerged in the 1980’s as a reaction to the long-term settlement of foreign workers, originally perceived as temporary migration, transforming these countries into immigration ones. Based on this West-European experience, the article claims that Czechia has evolved into an immigration country in the last two decades, providing evidence from its integration policies. It shows how Czechia implements so-called “civic integration policies”, a novel form of integration approach promoted by West-European countries since the end of the 1990’s, inquiring in what aspects Czech civic integration policies resemble and differ from the West-European examples. For this purpose, the research offers a qualitative comparison with Austria as a representative of such a West-European experience. As a result, it brings new knowledge on immigrant integration policies in a region neglected in migration studies, while supporting the argument that immigration to Czechia has turned into a constant trend, requiring a complex set of integration policies in order to tackle successfully this new reality.
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