Paper short abstract:

The topic of my contribution will be focused on migration from Ukraine and Kazakhstan to the Czech Republic after 1989. I shall concentrate on economic and political behaviour of migrants.

Paper long abstract:

In my contribution I would like to focus on East - West migrations after 1989 and especially on migrations of nationals of the former Soviet Union, Ukraine and Kazakhstan of the Czech origin "back" to the Czech Republic. The topics that I would develop are based on the data acquired during the research projects from 1992 to 2012. The research team from the Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., collected at that time a lot of both quantitative and qualitative data about the migration waves from 1991 - 2001. The data were published in several texts (for instance Valaskova, Uherek, Broucek 1997). Despite of thorough analyses of social behaviour of our respondents, we never compared our data with findings of surveys of re-migrants to other states (Poland, Germany, Slovakia etc.). We also did not compare our material with data acquired from immigrants from the former Soviet Union to these states but without ethnic origins of destination countries. This could be matter of discussion in your workshop.

In Tartu conference I would discuss the following tasks:

1.The shared knowledge of re-migrants and their economical behaviour.

2.Social experience of the above mentioned migration groups and their political opinions and the source country perception in post-migration period (including contacts with their former homelands).

References:

VALÁŠKOVÁ N., UHEREK Z., BROUČEK S. 1997 Aliens or One´s Own People: Czech Immigrants from the Ukraine in the Czech Republic. Praha.