Polish Minority in the Czech Part of Těšín Silesia in 2017: Can Accent on Schools Prevent the Entire Assimilation?

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Result on the web
<a href="https://munispace.muni.cz/index.php/munispace/catalog/view/997/3098/756-1" target="_blank" >https://munispace.muni.cz/index.php/munispace/catalog/view/997/3098/756-1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-8908-2018" target="_blank" >10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-8908-2018</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Polish Minority in the Czech Part of Těšín Silesia in 2017: Can Accent on Schools Prevent the Entire Assimilation?
Original language description
The territory of Těšín Silesia was divided between Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1920. This artificial division forced about 200 000 non-Czech first language speakers – 64 000 of them declared themselves to be Poles - to become Czechoslovak citizens. Almost 90 years afterwards only 26 000 inhabitants declared Polish nationality during the last census in 2011. The article analyses activities of both civic (non-governmental organisations - NGOs) as well as public institutions working for the Polish minority in Těšín Silesia region. It identifies strong efforts to stop the progressing assimilation of Polish minority into Czech society by multiple means, spreading from establishing special financial instruments supporting Polish minority organisations towards paradiplomatic activities. The research shows that the education in Polish and accent on the Polish language are the crucial tools to slow-down the assimilation, yet the entire assimilation seems to be inevitable.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of 25th Central European Conference Useful Geography: Transfer from Research to Practice 12th–13th October 2017, Brno
ISBN
978-80-210-8907-5
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e-ISSN
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Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
355-366
Publisher name
Masarykova unverzita
Place of publication
Brno
Event location
Brno
Event date
Jan 1, 2017
Type of event by nationality
CST - Celostátní akce
UT code for WoS article
000438830300032

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