USESEA007 Migration Processes in Europe

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2019
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Dr. Ivan Halász, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Dr. Ivan Halász, PhD.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Prerequisites
Expert Knowledge:
Students demonstrate the knowledge of historical development of national composition of European population; they demonstrate understanding complex phenomena related to growing disagreements between ethnical groups; they orient themselves regarding the issues of national minorities protection in the 20th century in Europe, including the issue of European Community, or more precisely, the European Union; they will demonstrate a deeper knowledge of existing research results related to the issue of national minorities and to the complex migration processes in the 20th century; and the knowledge of methodological approaches to exploring the minority issue in a wider context; and last but not the least, the current immigration wave from the so called third world and searching the ways to solve this burning problem.
Expert Skills:
Students are able to explain the causes of ethnical disagreements and conflicts, and the causes of migration processes in Europe in the 20th century, or to describe the basic problem issue of historical-legal aspects of national problems and of the protection of national minorities. They are familiar with the main problems that flow from these problem issues and with the social conditioning and changeability of the given problem issues. They understand the national sociocultural heritage in European, and especially Central European regions, which determines their specific and unique character. The are able to perceive European space in a wider political sociocultural context. Students are able to look up and sort out relevant information, and to write a paper on a topic related to the development of the issue of nationalities and the migraton processes in Europe according to presribed methodological, formal and content requirements.
General Competency:
National minorities issue and migration processes also apply to the narrower Central European space and the subject graduates, with the assistance of their expert knowledge, will be capable of a more adequate movement around and the influence in the region (whether in the area of their position in the national or international administration or in the area of private sector), and they will be able to contribute to solving contemporary issues of national and migration problem in practice.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to familiarize students with the extensive issue of national minorities and the issues of migration processes in Europe. It is necessary to consider the fact that there is practically no state without national minorities in Europe, or more precisely, that the minority issue was and is the basic political and sociocultural determinant of European, and especially Central European, space in the last two centuries, and that the study of this issue provides the necessary fundamental background for understanding the unique history and present of Europe. Students'attention will be drawn to the historical roots of the issue of national minorities. They will be familiarized with the proces of nationalization of the society, or the formation of its national identity basis in the 19th century, which can be found at the cradle of political, sociocultural conflicts, animosities and friction in Europe in the 20th century, and also consequently, at the crystallization of supernational awareness of European solidarity that led to the integration proces of European states in the second half of the 20th century. The main lecture content will deal with A) three main areas: 1) the national diversity of Europe; 2) the history and present of national minorities protection; and, 3) the migration processes in the past and today; B) primarily three main historical periods: 1) the period between the wars, 2) the period after the war, and 3) the period up to the present (from the beginning of 1990s. Besides the position of national minorities in Europe in the 20the century, attention will be paid to the related topic of migration processes, especially after World War II, as it was in this period when a significant number of the former Czechoslovakia inhabitants got actively involved in migration processes. Another important component of the course is a lecture on the contemporary migration from Eastern Europe and from the so called "third world" to Central and Western Europe and North America, and on the complicacies flowing from this process. On the completion of the course, student will be able to orient himself in the compex issue of ethnical composition of European population and will be able to understand the causes of tension between individual groups of population in various parts of the continent in the 20th century, which consequently developer into politically dictated or naturally forced migration of large groups of people.
Syllabus
  • 1) Introduction to the problem issues. Clarifying basic terms: nation, nationality, national minority; national state versus nationality state; ethnic diversity in Central Europe; national identity processes in the 19th century and the developments leading to the Versailles Peace System as the first international concept of protecting national minorities.
    2) The international legal protection of national minority members' human rights after the World War I and the role of the League of Nations.
    3) The position of national minorities in the Interwar Period I: wider Central European space: Poland, Germany, Austria, Hungaria, Romania, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Baltic states.
    4) The position of national minorities in the interwar period II: multinational states of Western Europe: Switzerland and Belgium; III: the situation in other states (Denmark, Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, Soviet Union, Greece and Turkey); migration processes in the interwar Europe.
    5) National minorities in the interwar Czechoslovakia and the legal position of national identities in the first Czechoslovak Republic.
    6) World War II - the escape of population from the front line zones, forced migrations, deportations; returning home; migration after the end of World War II.
    7) Displacement or expulsion? The end of German population in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungaria and Yugoslavia. The fortunes of the Ukrainians in Poland and Hungarians in Slovakia.
    8) Democratic exile from the countries of the socialistic camp.
    9) The issue of the third world migrant minorities in Europe; the issue of problematic cohabitation of European and non-European cultures (Christianity versus Islam).
    10) Protection of national minorities in the European community / European Union; the politics of the European community / European union towards minorities; the protection of national minorities in the EU law.
    11) The national minority issue in the Czech Republic after the World War II (up to the year 1993); present legal status of national minorities in the Czech Republic; coping with the issue of the expulsion of German population in former Czechoslovakia in comparison with Poland and Hungaria.
    12) The summary of basic aspects of the issues and discussion.
Literature
    required literature
  • HALÁSZ, I. Krajania a tzv. krajanské zákony na ich podporu v strednej Európe. UK, Praha, 2014. info
  • PETRÁŠ, R. Cizinci ve vlastní zemi. Menšinové problémy v moderní Evropě. Praha: Auditorium, 2012. ISBN 97-880-872-8432-2. info
  • HALÁSZ, I. Medzinárodná migrácia, krajania a volebné právo. ÚSP AVČR, 2011. info
  • SCHEU, H. (Ed.). Migrace a kulturní konflikty. Praha: Auditorium, 2011. info
  • FOREJTOVÁ, M. Mezinárodněprávní ochrana menšin. Plzeň: Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2002. ISBN 80-7082-843-9. info
    recommended literature
  • GOLD, S. J. - NAWYN, S. J. Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies. London: Routledge, 2014. info
  • FIDDIAN-QASMIYEH, E. - LOESCHER, G. - LONG, K. - SIGONO, N. The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. London: Routledge, 2014. info
  • NOSKOVÁ, H., BEDNAŘÍK, P. a kol. Identita národnostních menšin a integrace cizinců střední a východní Evropy ve dvaceti letech svobody. Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7285-138-6. info
  • PETRÁŠ, R. Menšiny v meziválečném Československu. Praha: Karolinum, 2009. ISBN 978-80-246-1639-1. info
  • KOVAŘÍK, D. , NOVÁČKOVÁ, H. a KOKOŠKOVÁ Z. Právní předpisy a německé obyvatelstvo Československa po roce 1945. Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny a Národní archiv, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7285-125-6. info
  • ŠIŠKOVÁ, N. Dimenze ochrany lidských práv v Evropské unii. Praha: Linde, 2008. ISBN 9788072017102. info
  • BARŠA, P. Evropská unie rozvíjet menšinovou politiku? In: Reprezentace zájmů menšin v EU. Brno: CDK, 2006. ISBN 80-7363-022-2. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, I. Pojetí menšin v evropském právu. In: Reprezentace zájmů menšin v EU. Brno: CDK, 2006. ISBN 80 -7325 -087 -X. info
  • MAREŠ, M. a kol. Etnické menšiny a česká politika. Analýza stranických přístupů k etnické a imigrační politice po roce 1989. Brno: CDK, 2004. ISBN 8073250500. info
  • BARŠA, P. Politická teorie multikulturalismu. Brno: CDK, 2003. ISBN 80-85959-47-X. info
  • HOBSBAWM, E. J. Národy a nacionalismus od roku 1780. Program, mýtus, realita. Brno: CDK, 2000. ISBN 8085959550. info
  • BALVÍN, J. a kol. Praha a osobnosti národnostních menšin. Praha: Komise Rady hl. m. Prahy pro oblast národ, 2000. ISBN 809029720X. info
  • NOSKOVÁ, H., VÁCHOVÁ, J. Reemigrace Čechů a Slováků z Jugoslávie, Rumunska a Bulharska (1945-1954). Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV, 2000. ISBN 978-80-7285-121-8. info
  • ŠATAVA, L. Národnostní menšiny v Evropě. Praha: Ivo Železný, 1994. ISBN 80-7116-375-9. info
  • STANĚK, T. Odsun Němců z Československa 1945-1947. Praha: Academia, 1991. ISBN 8020003282. info
Teaching methods
Lecturing
Seminar classes
Assessment methods
Written exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
50 % written test, 30 % essay, 20 % position papers
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018.
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