International conference Transnational Migration: Borders and Global Justice

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30 May, 2018, Villa Lanna (V Sadech 1, Praha 6)
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Mobilities and commons unseen: spatial mobility in homeless people explored through the analysis of GPS tracking data

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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Vašát, Petr, Daňková, Hana, Gibas, Petr, Poláková, Markéta
The aim of this study was to examine the spatial mobility of homeless people in urban areas, exploring homeless mobility, its drivers, limits and links to personal attributes, and whether there is an association between the extent of spatial activity and an...
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International conference Transnational Migration: Borders and Global Justice

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30. 5. 2018
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We invite you to the international conference that opens up a space for transdisciplinary discussion of migration, particularly across social anthropology, sociology, political and legal theories and/or philosophy.
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Activity spaces of men and women measured by GPS tracking data: A comparative analysis of Prague and Pilsen

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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Vašát, Petr, Poláková, Markéta, Gibas, Petr, Daňková Hana
The aim of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the size of activity spaces of homeless men and women in cities. Vulnerable population groups such as the homeless face the risk of mobility challenges that can exacerbate their social exclusion even more throug...
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Activity spaces of homeless men and women measured by GPS tracking data: A comparative analysis of Prague and Pilsen

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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Vašát, Petr, Poláková, Markéta, Gibas, Petr, Daňková, Hana
The aim of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the size of activity spaces of homeless men and women in cities. Vulnerable population groups such as the homeless face the risk of mobility challenges that can exacerbate their social exclusion even more t...
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The Global Border Industrial Complex and Eastern Africa: Analysing the Political Economy of Transnational Migration

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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana
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Daniela Lenčéš Chalániová: Seeing is Believing? Images of Refugees in the Czech Media Discourse and Risk-related Societal Transformation

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9. 3. 2017
Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., a katedra sociologie Institutu sociologických studií FSV UK si Vás dovolují pozvat na jarní cyklu Čtvrtečních sociologických seminářů.
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Seminář Ruud Koopmanse: Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism - How Globalization Is Reshaping Politics in the 21st Century

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3. 11. 2016
Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., a katedra sociologie Institutu sociologických studií FSV UK si Vás dovolují pozvat na čtvrteční seminář, kde vystoupí
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Residential segregation in Prague and Central Bohemian Region 2012–2018: a multiscalar approach using individualized neighbourhoods

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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Křížková, Ivana, Klsák, Adam
The aim of this text is to describe and compare the residential segregation of foreigners in Prague and Central Bohemian region in years 2012–2018. The distribution of foreigners is measured using a new method of individualized scalable neighbourhoods. This method allows to compa...
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Historical Demography 30 - suplement. History of Migration in the Czech Lands in the Early Modern Age

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This volume presents readers with the texts of papers that were presented at a seminar on the History of Migration in the Czech Lands in the Early Modern Age, which was organised by the Committee for Historical and Social Democracy, in cooperation with the Institute of Czech Hist...
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How to Turn Brain Drain into Brain Gain. Policies to Support Return of Researchers and Scientists to their Home Countries

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Authors: Kostelecká, Yvona, Josef Bernard, Věra Patočková, Tomáš Kostelecký
In order to compete in the global labor market of top-qualified workers, many states introduce various types of targeted policies to improve the migration balance of highly qualified workers. The book offers a systematic review of the policies used by different countries in an at...
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Migration und soziale Integration der Zuagroasten

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Authors: Bernard, Josef
Der Artikel beschreibt eine Untersuchung der Möglichkeiten sozialer Integration von Immigranten aus Städten in Dörfer. Verlaufund Ergebnisse der Untersuchung werden summarisiert.The article describes a research of the possibilities of the social integration of immigrant...
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Do habitus based social expectations contribute to upward mobility among Polish labor migrants in the UK?

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10. 2. 2020
Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., a katedra sociologie Institutu sociologických studií FSV UK si Vás dovolují pozvat na jarní cyklus Čtvrtečních sociologických seminářů.
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Peggy Levitt: God Needs No Passport. Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape

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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
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Subjective Mobility after 1989

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Authors: Řeháková, Blanka, Klára Vlachová
The article analyses two types of subjective mobility between 1988 and 1993. It asks how people evaluate the changes in their social status and economic situation and seeks to identify the links with certain objective social characteristics (which fix the position...
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Incomes in Central Europe: Distributions, patterns and perceptions

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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Comparative documentation on earnings and household incomes is gathered and analyzed to show recent tendencies in distributional patterns in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. No revolutions, but important shifts mostly maintaining differences between countries hav...
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Visible minorities and 'White'-'Non-White' Conjugal Unions in Canadian Large Cities

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Authors: Hamplová, Dana, Céline Le Bourdais
The study investigates assortative mating patterns with respect to race (visible minority status) in Canada. Using the 2001 Census data, the article analyses the occurrence of White/non-White unions in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Log-linear models indicate that the relative...
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Migrant values and social remittances across the contemporary migration-development nexus: the case of Moldovans in Czechia

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Authors: Drbohlav, D., A. Bailey, M. Lupták, D. Čermáková
Migration theory and international policy recognises that migrant remittances play significant roles in shaping economic, social, and political transformations in origins and destinations. However, nobody deals with how migrants experience and use values. To contribute to the dev...
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Good for One and All! Does the Czech Economy Make Efficient Use of Non-EU Labour Migrants?

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Authors: Leontiyeva, Yana
The article presents and discusses the results a national survey of migrant workers. The key issue addressed in the text is the educational level and qualification skills of labour immigrants and their position of the Czech labour market.
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Transnational Migration Contesting Borders of Responsibility for Justice

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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana
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