scholarly journals OECD SOPEMI NATIONAL REPORT 2020 FOR SLOVAK REPUBLIC PART I MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION POLICY AND MIGRATION MOVEMENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Heriban ◽  
Ľubica Gajdošová
Keyword(s):  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
National Report ◽  
Major Development ◽  
And Migration

scholarly journals The Evolution of the Approach to the Integration of Immigrants in Poland

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-97
Author(s):  
Lucyna Rajca
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Migration History ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Research Show

The aim of the paper is to present issues related to the approach to the integration of immigrants in Poland in the last three decades. The article is seeking an answer to the question of how the approach to immigrant integration has evolved? Does the evolving approach reflect the rising tide of change taking place in Europe? First, the article discusses the issues of migration to Poland. It is essential to consider cultural conditions related to the national identity and migration history of a given country in an attempt to explain the evolution of the integration policy. The subsequent parts analyze the Polish integration policy until 2015 and the integration policy after 2015. The results of the research show that in Poland, the approach to the integration of immigrants has evolved in a short time: from the “strategy of abandonment” to “integration” understood as a two-way process of adaptation to the concept of assimilation.

scholarly journals The Czech Republic and the Reality of Migrant Integration Policy in the Context of European Integration

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Bauerová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Cultural Resistance ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
And Migration

This study has confirmed that the Czech Republic (CR) is an example of a state whose integration and migration policy is very restrictive. Its integration and migration policies have been influenced mainly by migratory flows, economic crises, and European integration. In terms of Europeanisation, it is obvious that the CR carried out fundamental reform in the area of integration and migration policy under the influence of the EU. The implementation of rules in practice has been inadequate. The Czech Republic has recognised and identified the weaknesses of both policies but has not eliminated these weaknesses in practice. The main weakness lies in the fact that both policies are heavily centralised. Local authorities and NGOs do not have sufficient powers and financial resources; moreover, local authorities have no legal obligation to participate in integration. There is a disparity between regions resulting from the unequal concentration of foreigners. A long-term problem is the cultural resistance of society and the requirement for foreigners to assimilate into mainstream society. The migration crisis has increased state activity in the area of migration and integration policy. This is not a manifestation of Europeanisation, but a defence of state interests.

Integrating Delphi and AHP methods in long-term policy decisions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar GOMBITOVÁ
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
Policy Objective ◽  
Major Development ◽  
Partnership Agreement ◽  
Decision Alternatives ◽  
Hierarchy Process

This paper presents the application of expert decision methods for the formulation and prioritisation of the long-term economic, social and environmental policies in the Slovak Republic. The Partnership Agreement for the Slovak Republic is an underlying strategy for investments from the European Structural and Investment Funds in the period 2021-2027. Policies implemented under the Partnership Agreement will allocate €13.4b on four policy objectives. This paper concentrates on the policy objective 4 ‘Social development’. The authors co-operated with the Deputy Prime Minister Office and assembled panels of top Slovak experts on social and economic issues. The Delphi and Analytical hierarchy process methods were combined for analysing major development challenges and eliciting policy priorities. The methods combined the bottom-up and top-down approaches to policy making. Consecutive rounds of the ‘classical Delphi’ generated consensus by experts on major development challenges of the Slovak Republic in period 2021-2027. The ‘policy Delphi’ encouraged structured public dialogue in order to generate policy alternatives for solving development challenges. The Analytical Hierarchy Process enabled the structuring of complex policy decision problems. A hierarchy of decision goals, decision alternatives and decision criteria was constructed. Some nine policy measures were drafted and prioritised.

Gendered Nationalism in Practice: An Intersectional Analysis of Migrant Integration Policy in South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 976-1004
Author(s):  
SOJIN YU
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Multicultural Policy ◽  
Marriage Migrants ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Individual

In this article, I investigate how gendered nationalism is articulated through everyday practices in relation to immigrant integration policy and the intersectional production of inequality in South Korea. By using ethnographic data collected at community centers created to implement national “multicultural” policy, I examine the individual perspectives and experiences of Korean staff and targeted recipients (marriage migrants). To defend their own “native” privileges, the Korean staff stressed the gendered caretaking roles of marriage migrants and their contribution to the nation as justification for state support. The migrants, while critical of the familial responsibilities imposed on them in Korea, underscored their gendered value to the nation (as mothers to “Korean” children) to offset their subjugated position. The diverging perspectives of the two groups are informed by “everyday” nationalism, generated through constantly gendered terms and effects. Bringing together the literature on nationalism and migration through a focus on reproductive labor, I expose how national boundaries are drawn through quotidian practices of gendered nationalism, with significant implications for gender and ethnic hierarchies.

scholarly journals Is Rural Tourism a Perspective Driver of Development of Rural Municipalities? – The Case of Slovak Republic

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarína Melichová ◽  
Ľubica Majstríková
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Net Migration ◽  
Rural Municipalities ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractImportance of rural tourism as a specific form of tourism lies primarily in its potential to be a driving force for the development of rural municipalities and diversify their economic base. The aim of this paper is to verify this assumption, while analysing the relationship between the concentration of tourism activities and migration trends in rural municipalities in Slovakia. The results support the claim that tourism has significant positive effects manifested by a positive migration balance in municipalities where the tourism industry has a significant presence. The relationship between the level of net migration and rural tourism localisation index in rural areas is not entirely clear because of high diversity of rural municipalities. It is true that in the “catching-up” group of rural municipalities, where the previously negative trend of migration turned positive, localisation index of rural tourism reaches a peak, which may suggest that precisely this sector could be the driver of this positive development. On the other hand, there is a group of marginalized rural municipalities where the concentration of rural tourism industry measured by the index of localisation is also relatively high, but nevertheless, these municipalities suffer from a loss of population due to outmigration.

scholarly journals Immigration and Integration of Foreigners in Czechia: Some Thoughts on the Country’s Migration Transition from a David to a Near Goliath

Geografie ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dušan Drbohlav
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Eastern European Countries

The objective of this article is to summarize, or rather to emphasize, important findings from selected research projects carried out in Czechia regarding international migration and the integration of foreigners. The primary topics of the article include Czechia’s migration position among other Central and Eastern European countries, illegal residence and the unauthorized economic activities of immigrants, the spatial organization of foreigners, forms of integration of foreigners and migration/ integration policy. The introduction and application of the so-called “migration cycle” concept form the conceptual basis of the article. Emphasis is given primarily to the fact that Czechia’s migration (and integration) situation is unique among the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, due to its relatively advanced state of development. This is true both in terms of quantitative parameters and in light of their qualitative manifestations, including instruments for process management – i.e. the advanced and developed nature of migration and integration policies. This fact goes hand in hand with the evident convergence of Czech migration and integration tendencies with those known to exist in other developed immigration countries of Western Europe – with one exception: the spatial concentration of foreigners. This indicator does not yet approach the parameters (intensity and forms) known in more developed regions of the world.

Demonstration of Retinal Glycogen with Silver Methenamine

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 564-565
Author(s):  
A. W. Sedar ◽  
G. H. Bresnick
Keyword(s):  
Lactic Acid ◽  
Chromic Acid ◽  
Periodic Acid ◽  
Müller Cell ◽  
External Limiting Membrane ◽  
Electron Microscope Level ◽  
Reactive Process ◽  
Inner Limiting Membrane ◽  
Muller Cell ◽  
And Migration

After experimetnal damage to the retina with a variety of procedures Müller cell hypertrophy and migration occurs. According to Kuwabara and others the reactive process in these injuries is evidenced by a marked increase in amount of glycogen in the Müller cells. These cells were considered originally supporting elements with fiber processes extending throughout the retina from inner limiting membrane to external limiting membrane, but are known now to have high lactic acid dehydrogenase activity and the ability to synthesize glycogen. Since the periodic acid-chromic acid-silver methenamine technique was shown to demonstrate glycogen at the electron microscope level, it was selected to react with glycogen in the fine processes of the Müller cell that ramify among the neural elements in various layers of the retina and demarcate these cells cytologically. The Rhesus monkey was chosen as an example of a well vascularized retina and the rabbit as an example of a avascular retina to explore the possibilities of the technique.

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