Migration as a Political and Public Phenomenon: The Case of Czech Republic
Migration as a Political and Public Phenomenon: The Case of Czech Republic

Author(s): Jan Bečka, Bohumil Doboš, Filip Gantner, Jakub Landovský, Lenka Pítrová, Martin Riegl, Scarlett Waitzmanová
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Migration Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: migration; Czech Republic
Summary/Abstract: For the last two years, migration became one the most discussed topics in many European countries. With the waves of refugees and migrants in general arriving to Europe from the war-torn countries of the Middle East and from African countries, the European political representatives as well as the general public have been largely caught off guard. By September 2016, for example, there were almost 120,000 first-time asylum seekers in the EU-28.1 According to the UNHCR, there were 362,376 migrants and refugees arriving to Europe just by the Mediterranean route in 2016, not counting others.2 The migration flows that Europe has been witnessing as a part of the current crisis are the big-gest since the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s and perhaps the most significant since the end of Second World War.

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