APPROACH TO MIGRATION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: SHOULD WE BE WORRIED?
APPROACH TO MIGRATION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: SHOULD WE BE WORRIED?

Author(s): Libor Frank
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: migration; demographics; public surveys; securitization; ageing
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with one of the hottest contemporary issues - the international mass migration, which is intensively perceived as one of the most important challenges of our times for the present and the future of the European Union. Migration is largely negatively perceived as a security threat, which threatens the stability and security of European countries. However, a closer examination of migration and its consequences shows that this simplified and almost exclusively negative stereotype of migration does not exactly reflect reality and available “hard data”. The Czech Republic’s example demonstrates how the problem of migration is perceived in general, what attitude to immigration the Czech society occupies along with its reasons. The purpose of the conference paper is to contribute to the search for answers to the question whether migration is a genuine security threat or rather the opportunity or even the necessity, which we should exploit

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