Foreigners and the Czech Republic
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Admission of “quota” refugees off to slow start in the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic this week accepted the first refugees within the EU allotted quotas. However, instead of the expected thirty people only four arrived, following set…
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School pupils back Muslim classmate targeted over headscarf
Secondary school students in Teplice have launched a campaign in support of a Muslim classmate under pressure for wearing a headscarf. The school’s principal has received…
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Migrant crisis fuelling negative sentiments towards foreigners and the EU
The migrant crisis is making Czechs increasingly wary of foreigners. According to a recent poll conducted by the STEM agency, the number of people who think an ethnic…
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Foreign workers still face widespread abuse on the labour market
There are presently over 460,000 foreigners living and working in the Czech Republic and tens of thousands more who are here illegally. Their status, poor Czech or lack of…
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Affordable, safe Prague attractive to post-Soviet middle classes, says political scientist Emil…
Emil Aslan was born in Armenia, lived in Moscow and in his late teens moved to Prague, where today he is associate professor in Russian and East European Studies at…
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Head of Iraqi migrant relocation project: We cannot see into the heads and hearts of refugees
The relocation program for 150 Christian refugees from Iraq suffered a bad blow last week when it emerged that 25 of the 89 refugees already here had given up their asylum…
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Proposed new asylum rules elicit swift negative response from Prague
Amidst a deepening refugee crisis in Europe, the EC on Wednesday proposed new common asylum rules that would replace the so-called Dublin Regulation, under which people…
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Relocation programme for Christian refugees from Iraq in jeopardy after large group moves to Germany
A government-supported relocation programme for 150 Christian refugees from Iraq has been suspended after an eight-member-family decided to return to their homeland and 25…
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Interest mounts in Arab culture say Arabfest organisers
The annual festival of Arab culture, or Arabfest, got underway this week in the west Bohemian city of Pilsen. Now in its seventh year, the event offers a number of…
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Campaign highlights plight of present-day refugees by recalling dramatic communist-era escapes
A new campaign launched by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called “We ourselves were refugees” is attempting to show that the current refugee crisis, at…
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Amnesty highlights Czech treatment of refugees in latest annual report
The Czech Republic has come in for some criticism in Amnesty International’s latest annual report on the human rights situation around the world. Not for the first time…
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Moravian village unsettled by arrival of Iraqi refugees
Another group of Christian refugees from Iraq is set to arrive at Prague’s Václav Havel Airport on Friday. The families are part of a larger group whose relocation has…
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