Guest workers in a black hole
The impact of the financial crisis in the Czech Republic has been felt most by the guest workers who came here to find work....
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Annual Overview of International Migration in Central and Eastern Europe - 2008
MigrationOnline.cz has published brief overviews on events in the field of migration that happened in the course of the last year in selected Central European...
Working Through It: The Politics of Return
With increasing concerns over the rate of unemployment across the EU, some Member States reacted to the global economic crisis by limiting their intake of...
Death in the Life of Ukrainian labor migrants in Italy
Majority of Ukrainian labor migrants to Italy work in a care sector where they have to look after old and terminally sick people....
An inconvenient witness: How are Ukrainian workers being borrowed?
In the Czech Republic, it is a very exceptional thing for an illegally residing foreigner to file a complaint regarding exploitation against his ‘client’, as...
Migration opportunities – a few notes on the issue of dismissing foreign workers
The article notes that the current migration predicament in the Czech Republic – following the dismissal of several thousand third country agency workers – has...
Good Mongolians - Who makes steering wheel covers in a small Czech town?
Apos-Auto, a company based in Blansko, Southeast Czech Republic, has been recruiting workers from Mongolia....
RESF: the fight of humanity against the absurdity of the law
The Réseau Education Sans Frontičres (RESF) is a French non-profit organization working in the area of undocumented migrants in France....
A Europe Without Barriers: UNHCR’s Recommendations to the Czech Republic for its European Union Presidency (January – June 2009)
The tagline for the Czech Presidency of the EU has been set as “A Europe Without Barriers”....
An Algerian who made it in Prague - Algerian trading skills and Czech corruption
Migrants from Algeria do not enjoy the best reputation among Czech people. For many, the word Algerian is associated with negative stereotypes....
Mongolians dreaming their Czech dream: The long wait for visas - no guarantee of success
The Czech media have recently been reporting on the influx of migrant workers from Mongolia....
A Meeting in Kolín – Vietnamese workers in the Czech Republic
As the financial crisis deepens across the world’s stock markets, Czech experts are becoming skeptical: First, glass and textile factories went bankrupt, now...
Leaving or staying behind – the two faces of Moldova
The article introduces the problem of migration from Moldova, Europe’s poorest country, in the southeast of the continent....
Fear and debts
Of all immigrants coming to the Czech Republic, trafficked women suffer most injustice....
Survey of Available Courses of Czech as a Foreign Language
As of January 2009 foreigners applying for permanent stay in the Czech Republic will be obliged to pass an exam in the Czech language. Migrationonline....
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