September 6, 2018 - The Czech Sociological Review has published a new article by Kristýna Janurová. The article, named  The Unbearable Lightness of Moving: Czech Migrants Making a Home (or Not) in the UK, examines the factors that influence migrants' negotiation of belonging in the home and home societies. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews conducted between 2014 and 2016 with 41 Czech migrants who had moved to the United Kingdom between 1990 and 2015. The article (in English) is available HERE. 

July 20, 2018 - The members of our team participated in the IMISCOE Research Network Conference that took place in Barcelona from July 2 to July 4, 2018. The team presented, together with our Italian partners, the current research project on Moldovan migration to Czechia and Italy and the impact of social remittances in countries of origin. 

More information about the project is HERE. The conference website is HERE. 

April 30, 2018 - Members of the team Geomigrace visited Moldova from April 25 to April 29, 2018. The visit was organized within the project on social remittances of Moldovan migrants in Czechia and Italy (more information HERE). During the visit, the team members met return migrants and discussed their current activities, both private and public, with them. The visit also included meetings with mayors and also a project planning meeting with Italian and Moldovan project partners. 
 

24. dubna 2018 - Výzkumný tým Geomigrace vyhlásil výsledky soutěže 4. ročníku o nejlepší diplomovou práci v oblasti mezinárodní migrace.

Do soutěže bylo přihlášeno 6 prací:

Martina Burešová: Rámování islamofobních kolektivních aktérů v ČR a jejich obrazy nepřítele. Fakulta humanitních studií, Univerzita Karlova

Tereza Dubenská: Role náboženství v postmigrační realitě Rumunů v české společnosti. Fakulta sociálních studií, Masarykova univerzita

Radim Hueber: Územní azyl. Právnická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova

Ekaterina Ignatyeva: Ruští imigranti v Praze: koncentrace, integrace, soužití. Přírodovědecká fakulta, Univerzita Karlova

Hana Šobáňová: „Normální lidi jezdí na líbánky, my jsme jezdili na cizineckou policii.“: Analýza reflektované zkušenosti s binacionálním sňatkem. Fakulta humanitních studií, Univerzita Karlova

Sofiya Yudenko: Formální dobrovolnictví rusky mluvících cizinců v České republice a zkušenost zapojení se do místní společnosti. Fakulta humanitních studií, Univerzita Karlova

V tomto ročníku bylo rozhodnuto neudělit první místo. Na děleném druhém místě skončily Martina Burešová a Ekaterina Ignatyeva, třetí místo obsadil Radim Hueber.

Děkujeme za účast v soutěži. Oceněným blahopřejeme!

Předání cen proběhne v rámci studentské konference New Wave 31. 5. 2018 od 13.30, kdy vítězové budou mít možnost své práce prezentovat.

January, 14, 2018 - The book Contested Childhoods: Growing Up In Migrancy : Migration, Governance, Identities, with a chapter by Andrea Svobodová and Eva Janská, was selected by Choice magazine as an "Outstanding Academic Title" for the year 2017. The book focuses on specific processes of migration, governance and identity and it includes children and the diea of childhood. The chapter by Andrea Svobodová and Eva Janská, Identity Development Among Young of Vienamese Descent in the Czech Republic, deals with the identity of second generation Vietnamese in Czechia and it shows the ways they are creating their own identity. 

The book is available for download at the link below. 

The information on the IMISCOE website is HERE. 
 

December,  2017 - The academic journal AUC Geographica has just published the new article with the title "Diversification trends in Moldovan International migration: Evidence from Czechia and Italy". Among the authors, you can find more members of our research centre: Dušan Drbohlav, Zdeněk Čermák, Dita Čermáková, Lenka Pavelková, Markéta Seidlová, Ondřej Valenta. The article was written within our project supported by the Czech Grant Agency "Moldovans in Prague (Czechia) and Turin (Italy). It deals in detail with the current Moldovan emigration with focus on migration to Czechia and Italy. The article was written in collaboration with our partners in Italy and Moldova. 
The article is available HERE. 
 

June, 25 2017 - Seven members of our team participated in the Slovak-Czech-Polish Seminarium "Flows, Spaces and SOcieties in Central Europe" that took place between June 14th and June 16th, 2017, in Trenčianske Teplice, Slovakia.
 
The members of our team delivered the following speeches:
 
Dušan Drbohlav: Current international migration movements in Europe – selected challenges, opportunities and problems (plenary session)
Zdeněk Čermák, Eva Janská: Internal migration: decision making process of young Vietnameses, Ukrainians and Moldovans in Czechia
Dita Čermáková, Lenka Pavelková: Social remittances of Moldovan migrants in Czechia – a qualitative approach
Dagmar Dzúrová (together with Michaela Lustigová): Health transition in Visegrad group countries
Jiří Hasman (together with Martin Lepič and Josef Novotný): A systematic review of contextual factors affecting sanitation in rural areas of developing countries
 
Photographs and other information are HERE.
 

15. června 2017 - Hned dvakrát za sebou vystoupil Dušan Drbohlav v pořadech České televize. V neděli 11. června mluvil ve Studiu 24 o bezvízovém styku s Ukrajinou, v pořadu 90' mluvil o neochotě české vlády přijmout kvóty EU na přerozdělení uprchlíků mezi členské státy.
Odkazy na oba pořady najdete ZDE (Sekce Geomigrace v médiích).