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THE GEOGRAPHIC MIGRATION CENTRE (GEOMIGRACE)
WEBSITE: http://web.natur.cuni.cz/ksgrrsek/geomigrace/
CONTACT: dusan.drbohlav@natur.cuni.cz
TEAM LEADER: Dušan Drbohlav
TEAM MEMBERS: Zdeněk Čermák; Dita Čermáková; Dagmar Dzúrová; Klára Fiedlerová; Eva Janská; Klára Blahůtová Kavanová; Tereza Kušniráková; Lenka Medová; Soňa Schovánková; Ondřej Valenta
ADJUNCT MEMBERS: Milan Lupták (University of Economics in Prague); Robert Stojanov (Global Change Research Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i.); Wadim Strielkowski (Global Change Research Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i.)
RESEARCH FOCUS OF THE TEAM
The Centre focuses on researching migration and the integration of immigrants. Besides simply monitoring these processes, the Centre’s research activities focus on analyzing the causes, mechanisms and eff ects of international migration and the integration of foreigners in Czechia in a broader Central European context with emphasis on post-Soviet and Vietnamese immigrants. Internal migration and other forms of population mobility are secondary research focuses. Th e geographic aspects of these issues are emphasized, while at the same time interdisciplinary approaches to research are respected considering the complexity of the phenomena being researched. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used, mostly in combination with each other. Findings are published in both Czech and foreign scholarly journals. In the past four years research fi ndings have been published in 3 books.
GEOMIGRACE team members work on the following pivotal research topics, which are often covered by the Centre’s projects: 1) theoretical, conceptual issues linked to the processes of migration and integration, and their general framework; 2) describing and trying to partially explain (or even predict future trends in) migration and the integration of foreigners into Czech society, including placing the issue into a wider European framework; 3) irregular/illegal migration and unauthorized economic activities undertaken by immigrants in Czechia; 4) the integration of foreigners into society, encompassing research on diff erent models, forms, contexts (especially based on economic environment) and target groups in both Czechia and abroad; 5) demographic and socioeconomic aspects of international migration embodied in the concept of “replacement migration” (in close cooperation with demographers at the Faculty of Science, Charles University); 6) the spatial distribution of foreigners in Czechia and related phenomena; 7) environmental migration; 8) real and potential migration and the mobility of the Czech population from their native country; 9) health risks and the lifestyle and health of migrants; 10) migration statistics and 11) migration policy.
Team members also use research findings in the classroom, especially in the courses International Migration, Geography of Migration and Integration of Foreigners and Social Geography. Team members have also established close cooperation with institutes abroad.
