The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F24%3A10477242" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/24:10477242 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kDbc3H9~V3" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kDbc3H9~V3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2289576" target="_blank" >10.1080/01442872.2023.2289576</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy

Original language description

The Czech Republic has received the largest number of Ukrainian refugees per capita. An underdeveloped migrant integration policy and limited experience with large numbers of refugees hampered the Czechs&apos; willingness to help. The reception phase relied heavily on crisis teams, volunteers, and civil society organizations. Accommodating structural measures became necessary. This article takes a closer look at these changes and explains how the large number of Ukrainian refugees constitutes an &quot;external shock&quot; that has shaped Czech migrant integration policy in several key aspects. We also examine the role of international organizations in shaping migrant integration policy. We use the research framework of historical institutionalism, applying retrograde analysis, desk research and deep semi-structured interviews. Our results show that migration policy has been skewed in the short-term towards better acceptance of migrants, but we can identify a tendency towards a return to the original trajectory. We also find that international organizations have not had a substantial influence on recent changes in migrant integration policy; domestic actors have had a much greater influence.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Policy Studies

ISSN

0144-2872

e-ISSN

1470-1006

Volume of the periodical

45

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3-4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

507-531

UT code for WoS article

001118086200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85178475818