Working Europeans
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F11%3A43899361" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/11:43899361 - isvavai.cz</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Working Europeans
Original language description
Labour migrants always leave their home country with some expectations or goals which they want to achieve in the destination country. Their expectations are strongly influenced by the economic and political situations of both countries. This paper is based on anthropological research and focuses on the motives and strategies of current labour migrants from the Czech Republic. The most attractive countries for such migrants are the United Kingdom and Ireland. These two countries opened their labour markets in May 2004 when the Czech Republic entered the EU. The research on current migrants shows that they look abroad more for self-realization than for saving money, and the desire to improve language skills plays the greatest role. Yet economic motivespersist. The other main factor is the present favourable political situation, which also acts to motivate migrants to look for self-fulfilment. Among migrants there exist two main strategies of entrance?the use of social networks and the
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AO - Sociology, demography
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA403%2F09%2F0038" target="_blank" >GA403/09/0038: Life-course de-standardization in the contemporary Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
(Post)transformational migration : inequalities, welfare state, and horizontal mobility
ISBN
978-3-631-61756-4
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
59-76
Number of pages of the book
298
Publisher name
Peter Lang GmbH
Place of publication
Frankfurt am Main
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