Migration Processes in Central and Eastern Europe - Multiple Choices

Acknowledgments
This publication is composed of papers presented at the international
Workshop on Developments and Patterns of Migration Processes in Central
and Eastern Europe organised by the Multicultural Centre Prague, August 25 – 27,
2005 (see www.migrationonline.cz/workshop). The workshop brought together a hundred
participants to discuss current migration patterns and related social processes in Central
and Eastern European countries (CEE). Together we engaged in debates about migration
theories, discussed empirically based accounts from the “region”, and listened to
experiences of non-governmental representatives concerned with various aspects
of migration processes in CEE. After the workshop, we made a selection from the
papers and were happy to find that the authors were willing to make comprehensive
revisions and significantly shorten their texts for the purposes of this publication.
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We are greatly indebted to a number of people who assisted in the preparation
of the workshop, helped us with finalising the program and with selecting and editing
the contributions in the publication. We would especially like to thank Fabian Georgi,
Cosmin Radu, Jakob Hurrle, Jakub Grygar, Joshua Hatton, Radka Klvaňová, Kateřina
Janků and William Hiscott. Eva Burgetová from the Multicultural Centre Prague never
seemed to lose patience when communicating with the participants of the workshop,
arranging accommodation and other practical matters. Ian Cook proofread the texts
and attempted to find the correct balance between the Central and Eastern European
versions of English and the British norm. We also highly appreciate the help of a number
of volunteers – students of the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University and New
York University in Prague – who assisted before or at the event itself as well as Arkadi
Miller who came down from Berlin to help in the few weeks before the workshop began.
This event was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Open
Society Fund Prague (OSF) within the framework of the East East Program. Vlasta
Hirtová of the OSF gave us a lot of support throughout the preparations. We also want
to give thanks for the financial assistance of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees in the Czech Republic and Marta Miklušáková in particular for supporting
the panel and seminar on Reception of Refugees in CEE. We greatly appreciate the
cooperation with the co-organiser, the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in
Prague and in particular its dean Jan Sokol, Petra Lukšíková Ezzedine and Milan Kovář.
A warm thank you once again to all of you who devoted your time and energy
to help us make this project a success and, indeed, a great journey into a still largely
under-researched and fascinating field.
MAREK ČANĚK
JAN GRILL
ALICE SZCZEPANIKOVÁ
Migration Processes in Central and Eastern Europe: Unpacking the Diversity