Margins of Everyday Life of Czechoslovak Experts in Africa. Motivation - Nomination - Preparation - Emigration?

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Margins of Everyday Life of Czechoslovak Experts in Africa. Motivation - Nomination - Preparation - Emigration?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Since the 1960s, Czechoslovakia was very active in providing development aid to the newly established states in Africa. One of the most widely used instruments of this aid was the sending of expert groups from various fields. In view of the lack of reliable, yet sufficiently professional and linguistically equipped cadres available to the Czechoslovak government, emigration to the West wasnot uncommon among the experts sent. A more significant increase in emigration occurred immediately after 1968, when Warsaw Pact armies invaded Czechoslovakia.This article attempts to present the daily reality of Czechoslovak experts sent to Africa. It will focus on their motivations for going, the functioning of their communities and, through the stories ofseveral experts, it will also outline the motivations and methods of emigration to the West throughthe country to which they were sent or reflections on emigration.The article is based mainly on materials from the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs andinterviews with the experts or their close relatives. The stories of two water engineers, Antonín Petlach and René Sameš (Ghana), pharmacists Zdeňka and Otomar Věříš (Tunisia), and physician JanFoustka (Ghana) will be discussed.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Margins of Everyday Life of Czechoslovak Experts in Africa. Motivation - Nomination - Preparation - Emigration?

Popis výsledku anglicky

Since the 1960s, Czechoslovakia was very active in providing development aid to the newly established states in Africa. One of the most widely used instruments of this aid was the sending of expert groups from various fields. In view of the lack of reliable, yet sufficiently professional and linguistically equipped cadres available to the Czechoslovak government, emigration to the West wasnot uncommon among the experts sent. A more significant increase in emigration occurred immediately after 1968, when Warsaw Pact armies invaded Czechoslovakia.This article attempts to present the daily reality of Czechoslovak experts sent to Africa. It will focus on their motivations for going, the functioning of their communities and, through the stories ofseveral experts, it will also outline the motivations and methods of emigration to the West throughthe country to which they were sent or reflections on emigration.The article is based mainly on materials from the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs andinterviews with the experts or their close relatives. The stories of two water engineers, Antonín Petlach and René Sameš (Ghana), pharmacists Zdeňka and Otomar Věříš (Tunisia), and physician JanFoustka (Ghana) will be discussed.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Prague Papers on the History of International Relations [online]

ISSN

2336-7105

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

2021

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

66-79

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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