Alter Ego Project
Alter Ego is one of the seven flagship projects chosen by the European Commission to celebrate the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue....
15. 4. 08
E-library
“I don’t want to have a boss over my head”: Changing patterns of paid domestic work among Albanian women in Athens
This paper aims at examining the ways through which Albanian female migrants, who work as live-out house-cleaners, conceptualize their job and shape their...
Xenophobia and discrimination in Poland - outline of the situation
Polish version of this paper was published by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial...
15. 4. 08
Out of Visegrad Continues
The ‘Out of Visegrad’ blogs started way back in 2006 with a small group of labour migrants from Visegrad countries writing about their experience of working in...
8. 4. 08
International Migrants Day and Radio 1812
Launched in 2006 to celebrate International Migrants Day, Radio 1812 is a global one-day radio show connecting igrant communities worldwide, to highlight their...
4. 4. 08
The price of information – Expulsion
The text describes the personal experience from February 2008 of a Russian student living in the Czech Republic who was expelled from Germany due to having...
MigrationOnline is looking for volunteers – translators
MigrationOnline is looking for volunteers – translators who would be interested in translating occasionally a refugee’s blog from Russian into English....
14. 3. 08
The Church and Ukrainian immigrants in Poland
Although primarily a religious institution, the Greek-Catholic Church plays an important social role in the lives and integration of Ukrainian migrants in...
12. 3. 08
articles
UNESCO and Migrant Workers Convention
UNESCO recently published ‘The Migrant Workers Convention in Europe: Obstacles to the Ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of the...
7. 3. 08
The “Global Approach to Migration”: rhetoric or reality?
European Policy Center (EPC) policy brief: ‘The “Global Approach to Migration”: rhetoric or reality?’ What has come to be known as the ‘Global Approach to...
7. 3. 08
Migration and the EU
Leben in der Illegalität
The Heinrich Boll Stiftung released a Dossier on irregular migration in Europe, titled ‘Living in illegality’ (Leben in der Illegalität)....
Migrants and Refugees in the Buffer Zone: Asylum Policy in Ukraine
Ukraine plays an important role within the European migration system....
Annual Overview of International Migration in Central and Eastern Europe - 2007
Annual Overview section presents fifteen commentaries from ten different countries on the important events and changes which took place in the field of...
5. 3. 08
articles
Being Legal in the Czech Republic: One American’s Bureaucratic Odyssey
This article is the first-person testimony of an American citizen living in the Czech Republic for over ten years....
Binational Marriages and Czech Immigration Policy: Sorting Truth from Fiction?
In the following text we present a short analysis of marriages between migrants and Czech citizens....