Migration Processes in Central and Eastern Europe - Multiple Choices

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Refugees in Central and Eastern Europe
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1 We can identify the image of passive consumers in many methodologies
and manuals from work with asylum seekers across discourses.
The asylum seeker is presented as consumer of social,
sanitary, psychological, leisure time activities and other forms of care.
2 In the course of time the used military facilities were considered as
troublesome and repulsive residues because of their detached locations
and constructional improprieties. The main reason for their
utilisation as refugee centres was their instant accessibility and
reasonable capacity to accommodate huge numbers of strangers.
3 During the initial phases of the democratic transformation the
public showed little tolerance for incoming foreigners whilst later
figure have shown that the public has become more tolerant
of immigrants.
4 In the Czech Republic the possibility of living outside a centre is
still being presented in the state discourse in a pejorative way.
Privacy is presented as an inimical environment where asylum
seekers are exposed to many risks and dangers and not as an
environment where the natural support between relatives or possibility
of simpler integration and independent existence can be found.
5 I worked in the field of asylum seekers’ issues, at the Refugee
Facilities Administration of the Ministry of Interior, as an educator,
a social worker, a manager of residential centres and eventually
as a manager of Vyšní Lhoty reception centre.
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Daniel Topinka 61
Daniel Topinka is the founder of Inter-cultural
Studies at Faculty of Philosophy, Palacký
University Olomouc, Czech Republic. The main
focus of the department is the new social
inter-cultural phenomena, integration processes
and immigration discourses. He can be contacted at:
d.topinka@volny.cz.
Migration Processes in Central and Eastern Europe: Unpacking the Diversity