Dušan Drbohlav
Biographic Data
| ID | 1122464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dušan Drbohlav |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dušan |
| FAMILY NAME | Drbohlav |
| SIGNATURE | DRBOHLAV D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6648-7833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On the footsteps of parents? Migration experience and aspirations of university students in Moldova
This article investigates the impact of parental migration on the migration aspirations of university students in Moldova. Through 24 semi-structured in-depth interviews with university students, the article aims to answer the questions of what shapes the migration aspirations of young students and whether and to what extent their parents’ migration experience impacts this process. The findings show that young Moldovan students are mainly pushed …
A framework for understanding precarious economic incorporation of Ukrainian refugees in Central Eastern Europe
This article introduces the MoPEI (Mechanisms of Precarious Economic Incorporation) framework, a conceptual-analytical tool for explaining how refugees are steered into precarious labor through the relational and layered intersections of multiple mechanisms. Considering the labor market realities of Central and Eastern Europe, MoPEI identifies six such mechanisms – structural constraints, temporal and legal ambiguity, migration infrastructures, s…
Drivers of Return Plans Among Ukrainian War Refugees in Czechia: Challenging Common Assumptions and Refining the Theory
This article examines return plans of forcibly displaced persons from Ukraine in Czechia, which has one of the highest relative shares of Ukrainian refugees in population. It draws on data from two rounds of cross‐sectional surveys conducted in 2022 ( N = 1037) and 2023 ( N = 350), including a panel subsample ( N = 116). Using exploratory network analysis and structural equation modelling informed by the theory of planned behaviour, the study cap…
The role of geographical distance in transnational institutional engagement of the Czech diaspora: A comparative study
Engagement with institutions from migrants’ country of origin, both in the destination country and in the country of origin, is distinct transnational behaviour. This study investigates the impact of geographical distance on the institutional engagement of migrants from Czechia in five global regions. We examine how geographic (physical) proximity to Czechia shapes institutional engagement with the country of origin and identify factors beyond di…
Geocoding Freeform Placenames: An Example of Deciphering the Czech National Immigration Database
The growth of international migration and its societal and political impacts bring a greater need for accurate data to measure, understand and control migration flows. However, in the Czech immigration database, the birthplaces of immigrants are only kept in freeform text fields, a substantial obstacle to their further processing due to numerous errors in transcription and spelling. This study overcomes this obstacle by deploying a custom geocodi…
Migrant Remitting as Transnational Practice: Moldovans in Italy and Czechia
We examine the relationship between the social practice of migrant remitting and the transnational field connecting Moldova with Italy and Czechia. Using data from a harmonized migrant survey, we estimate ordinal regression models and distinguish two remitting practices. Family remitting is organized around a set of routinized activities and communications that support the survival needs of families, while civil remitting contributes to the long-…
Social Remittances upon Closer Examination: Moldovan Migrants in Prague, Czechia and Turin, Italy
Our goal is twofold: to contribute to conceptualizing social remittances and to shed new light on who the most important agents of change are. Using data from our own questionnaire surveys, carried out with Moldovan migrants in Prague, Czechia (N = 203) and Turin, Italy (N = 206) in 2017–2018, we applied classification and regression trees analysis. In addition to defining three types of social remittances—interpersonal communication–based, proje…
Migration and pastoral power through life course: Evidence from Georgia
Social Hazards as Manifested Workplace Discrimination and Health (Vietnamese and Ukrainian Female and Male Migrants in Czechia)
Social hazards as one of the dimensions of workplace discrimination are a potential social determinant of health inequalities. The aim of this study was to investigate relations between self-reported health and social hazard characteristics (defined as-discrimination as such, violence or threat of violence, time pressure or work overload and risk of accident) among Vietnamese and Ukrainian migrants (males and females) in Czechia by age, education…
Immigrants’ Access to Health Insurance: No Equality without Awareness
The Czech government has identified commercial health insurance as one of the major problems for migrants' access to health care. Non-EU immigrants are eligible for public health insurance only if they have employee status or permanent residency. The present study examined migrants' access to the public health insurance system in Czechia. A cross-sectional survey of 909 immigrants from Ukraine and Vietnam was conducted in March and May 2013, and …
Smuggled versus Not Smuggled across the Czech Border
The main goal of this paper is to analyze the spatial behavior of unauthorized migrants in their attempts to irregularly cross the Czech state's “green” border (including walking trails) into Austria and Germany, between 2005 and 2007. It demonstrates the importance of select demographic and human characteristics of the migrants, as well as the physical features of the environment, in their crossing. Our main premise concerning the importance of …
Estimating the Size of the Irregular Migrant Population in Prague – An Alternative Approach
This paper's primary objective is to contribute to the ‘never‐ending story’ of estimating irregular migration. It presents an attempt to develop an empirically based approach/technique for estimating the size of an irregular migrant population, or more specifically of irregularly residing immigrants within the city of Prague. A pilot study, based on discovering the actual number of immigrants residing in selected localities, was conducted via obs…
Illegal Economic and Transit Migration in the Czech Republic: A Study of Individual Migrants' Behaviour
This article examines the essential features of international migration and the illegal working activities of migrants in the Czech Republic, with a closer insight into the processes of trafficking and smuggling. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with 63 illegal migrants, both from countries of the former Soviet Union (mainly Ukraine) and developing countries in 2005 and 2006. The main conclusion of the analysis is that, in many…
La migration internationale en République tchèque Aspects démographiques et économiques
Au cours de la décennie 1990, la République tchèque est devenue un pays d’immigration et de transit. La régulation des flux de migrants et leur mode d’intégration sont désormais des questions essentielles. L’article présente les principales caractéristiques de la migration internationale en République tchèque. Compte tenu de l’évolution de la population (solde naturel négatif, vieillissement de la structure par âge), l’immigration ne peut suffire…
Možnosti migračního řešení perspektivního úbytku a demografického stárnutí obyvatelstva České republiky [Migration as a Possible Solution to the Future Population Deficits and Demographic Ageing in th…
The article draws on the concept of 'replacement migration', widely presented by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in 2000 and 2001, which elaborated a concept and conducted a comprehensive analysis of international migration as a solution to the problem of population declines and demographic ageing. This concept was applied as an example to selected countries in the world, the European region, and the Eu…
Where Are They Going?”: Immigrant Inclusion in the Czech Republic (A Case Study on Ukrainians, Vietnamese, and Armenians in Prague) 1
This paper is based on research conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Office in Prague and the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague in the fall and winter of 2003‐2004. Within the questionnaire survey, 126 first‐generation immigrants in Prague (51 Ukrainians, 45 Vietnamese, and 30 Armenians) were successfully contacted via a non‐probability sampling method. The main goals of the research were to ascertain wha…
Social and cultural geography in the Czech Republic: Under pressures of globalization and post-totalitarian transformation
Poděkování Příspěvek je jedním z výstupů Výzkumného záměru MSM 0021620831 financovaného Ministerstvem školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy České republiky. Martin Hampl Petr Dostál Dušan Drbohlav Katedra sociální geografie a regionálního rozvoje, Přírodovedecká fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Albertov 6, Praha 2, 128 43, Ceská republika, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Current Post-Soviet Immigrants in West Hollywood, California: Separated and Segregated Seniors
Les immigrants post-soviétiques âgés à West Hollywood, Californie et leurs modalités d'intégration dans une société multiculturelle. Cet article examine la question des immigrants post-soviétiques d'origine juive arrivés aux Etats-Unis dans les années 1990 et qui vivent dans la région de Los Angeles, en particulier à West Hollywood. Les résultats préliminaires d'une enquête menée en avril 2000 sur les expériences d'immigration/intégration de ces …
Immigration and the Czech Republic (with a Special Focus on the Foreign Labor Force)
This article presents an overview of international migration in the Czech Republic, with a special focus on labor immigration. Currently, the Czech Republic is an immigration and transit country. The most important immigratory segment — economic immigrants — create a colorful mosaic of various ethnicities (80% of them from Europe), each group with their own different economic strategy and niche. After sketching historical patterns and data proble…
Politiques et pratiques des migrations internationales en République tchèque
Plus de dix ans après la "révolution de velours", la République tchèque a du mal à se penser comme une terre d'immigration. D'autant que sa situation économique, satisfaisante au début des années quatre-vingt-dix, est moins florissante depuis la fin de la décennie et que le niveau des migrations -de transit clandestines, légales, permanentes, provisoires -fluctue au gré de la conjoncture . Reste que la République tchèque est aujourd'hui surtout o…
Migration Policy Objectives for European East‐West International Migration
The study contains selected results of Delphi research (subjective judgements concerning the future on a collective expert basis) on international migration between Central/Eastern (C/EEc) and Western European countries. Taking part in the research were 109 scholars and officers....from all over Europe.... Results indicate growing problems and tensions in societies, the division of Europe into two parts, and the triggering rather than pacifying o…
International Migration in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and the Outlook for East Central Europe
This article "is devoted to the international migration issue in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Czechoslovakia). Besides the contemporary trends, the international migration situation is briefly traced back to the communist era. The probable future scenario of international migration development--based especially on migration patterns that Western Europe has experienced--is also sketched, whilst mainly economic, social, political, demographic, …
Where Are They Going?”: Immigrant Inclusion in the Czech Republic (A Case Study on Ukrainians, Vietnamese, and Armenians in Prague) 1
This paper is based on research conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Office in Prague and the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague in the fall and winter of 2003‐2004. Within the questionnaire survey, 126 first‐generation immigrants in Prague (51 Ukrainians, 45 Vietnamese, and 30 Armenians) were successfully contacted via a non‐probability sampling method. The main goals of the research were to ascertain wha…
Social and cultural geography in the Czech Republic: Under pressures of globalization and post-totalitarian transformation
Poděkování Příspěvek je jedním z výstupů Výzkumného záměru MSM 0021620831 financovaného Ministerstvem školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy České republiky. Martin Hampl Petr Dostál Dušan Drbohlav Katedra sociální geografie a regionálního rozvoje, Přírodovedecká fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Albertov 6, Praha 2, 128 43, Ceská republika, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Migration and pastoral power through life course: Evidence from Georgia
Immigration and the Czech Republic (with a Special Focus on the Foreign Labor Force)
This article presents an overview of international migration in the Czech Republic, with a special focus on labor immigration. Currently, the Czech Republic is an immigration and transit country. The most important immigratory segment — economic immigrants — create a colorful mosaic of various ethnicities (80% of them from Europe), each group with their own different economic strategy and niche. After sketching historical patterns and data proble…
Drivers of Return Plans Among Ukrainian War Refugees in Czechia: Challenging Common Assumptions and Refining the Theory
This article examines return plans of forcibly displaced persons from Ukraine in Czechia, which has one of the highest relative shares of Ukrainian refugees in population. It draws on data from two rounds of cross‐sectional surveys conducted in 2022 ( N = 1037) and 2023 ( N = 350), including a panel subsample ( N = 116). Using exploratory network analysis and structural equation modelling informed by the theory of planned behaviour, the study cap…
Možnosti migračního řešení perspektivního úbytku a demografického stárnutí obyvatelstva České republiky [Migration as a Possible Solution to the Future Population Deficits and Demographic Ageing in th…
The article draws on the concept of 'replacement migration', widely presented by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in 2000 and 2001, which elaborated a concept and conducted a comprehensive analysis of international migration as a solution to the problem of population declines and demographic ageing. This concept was applied as an example to selected countries in the world, the European region, and the Eu…
Social Remittances upon Closer Examination: Moldovan Migrants in Prague, Czechia and Turin, Italy
Our goal is twofold: to contribute to conceptualizing social remittances and to shed new light on who the most important agents of change are. Using data from our own questionnaire surveys, carried out with Moldovan migrants in Prague, Czechia (N = 203) and Turin, Italy (N = 206) in 2017–2018, we applied classification and regression trees analysis. In addition to defining three types of social remittances—interpersonal communication–based, proje…
Estimating the Size of the Irregular Migrant Population in Prague – An Alternative Approach
This paper's primary objective is to contribute to the ‘never‐ending story’ of estimating irregular migration. It presents an attempt to develop an empirically based approach/technique for estimating the size of an irregular migrant population, or more specifically of irregularly residing immigrants within the city of Prague. A pilot study, based on discovering the actual number of immigrants residing in selected localities, was conducted via obs…
Illegal Economic and Transit Migration in the Czech Republic: A Study of Individual Migrants' Behaviour
This article examines the essential features of international migration and the illegal working activities of migrants in the Czech Republic, with a closer insight into the processes of trafficking and smuggling. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with 63 illegal migrants, both from countries of the former Soviet Union (mainly Ukraine) and developing countries in 2005 and 2006. The main conclusion of the analysis is that, in many…
Politiques et pratiques des migrations internationales en République tchèque
Plus de dix ans après la "révolution de velours", la République tchèque a du mal à se penser comme une terre d'immigration. D'autant que sa situation économique, satisfaisante au début des années quatre-vingt-dix, est moins florissante depuis la fin de la décennie et que le niveau des migrations -de transit clandestines, légales, permanentes, provisoires -fluctue au gré de la conjoncture . Reste que la République tchèque est aujourd'hui surtout o…
Migration Policy Objectives for European East‐West International Migration
The study contains selected results of Delphi research (subjective judgements concerning the future on a collective expert basis) on international migration between Central/Eastern (C/EEc) and Western European countries. Taking part in the research were 109 scholars and officers....from all over Europe.... Results indicate growing problems and tensions in societies, the division of Europe into two parts, and the triggering rather than pacifying o…
International Migration in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and the Outlook for East Central Europe
This article "is devoted to the international migration issue in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Czechoslovakia). Besides the contemporary trends, the international migration situation is briefly traced back to the communist era. The probable future scenario of international migration development--based especially on migration patterns that Western Europe has experienced--is also sketched, whilst mainly economic, social, political, demographic, …
The role of geographical distance in transnational institutional engagement of the Czech diaspora: A comparative study
Engagement with institutions from migrants’ country of origin, both in the destination country and in the country of origin, is distinct transnational behaviour. This study investigates the impact of geographical distance on the institutional engagement of migrants from Czechia in five global regions. We examine how geographic (physical) proximity to Czechia shapes institutional engagement with the country of origin and identify factors beyond di…
International Migration in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and the Outlook for East Central Europe
This article "is devoted to the international migration issue in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Czechoslovakia). Besides the contemporary trends, the international migration situation is briefly traced back to the communist era. The probable future scenario of international migration development--based especially on migration patterns that Western Europe has experienced--is also sketched, whilst mainly economic, social, political, demographic, …
Migration Policy Objectives for European East‐West International Migration
The study contains selected results of Delphi research (subjective judgements concerning the future on a collective expert basis) on international migration between Central/Eastern (C/EEc) and Western European countries. Taking part in the research were 109 scholars and officers....from all over Europe.... Results indicate growing problems and tensions in societies, the division of Europe into two parts, and the triggering rather than pacifying o…
Politiques et pratiques des migrations internationales en République tchèque
Plus de dix ans après la "révolution de velours", la République tchèque a du mal à se penser comme une terre d'immigration. D'autant que sa situation économique, satisfaisante au début des années quatre-vingt-dix, est moins florissante depuis la fin de la décennie et que le niveau des migrations -de transit clandestines, légales, permanentes, provisoires -fluctue au gré de la conjoncture . Reste que la République tchèque est aujourd'hui surtout o…
Current Post-Soviet Immigrants in West Hollywood, California: Separated and Segregated Seniors
Les immigrants post-soviétiques âgés à West Hollywood, Californie et leurs modalités d'intégration dans une société multiculturelle. Cet article examine la question des immigrants post-soviétiques d'origine juive arrivés aux Etats-Unis dans les années 1990 et qui vivent dans la région de Los Angeles, en particulier à West Hollywood. Les résultats préliminaires d'une enquête menée en avril 2000 sur les expériences d'immigration/intégration de ces …
Immigration and the Czech Republic (with a Special Focus on the Foreign Labor Force)
This article presents an overview of international migration in the Czech Republic, with a special focus on labor immigration. Currently, the Czech Republic is an immigration and transit country. The most important immigratory segment — economic immigrants — create a colorful mosaic of various ethnicities (80% of them from Europe), each group with their own different economic strategy and niche. After sketching historical patterns and data proble…
Where Are They Going?”: Immigrant Inclusion in the Czech Republic (A Case Study on Ukrainians, Vietnamese, and Armenians in Prague) 1
This paper is based on research conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Office in Prague and the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague in the fall and winter of 2003‐2004. Within the questionnaire survey, 126 first‐generation immigrants in Prague (51 Ukrainians, 45 Vietnamese, and 30 Armenians) were successfully contacted via a non‐probability sampling method. The main goals of the research were to ascertain wha…
Social and cultural geography in the Czech Republic: Under pressures of globalization and post-totalitarian transformation
Poděkování Příspěvek je jedním z výstupů Výzkumného záměru MSM 0021620831 financovaného Ministerstvem školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy České republiky. Martin Hampl Petr Dostál Dušan Drbohlav Katedra sociální geografie a regionálního rozvoje, Přírodovedecká fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Albertov 6, Praha 2, 128 43, Ceská republika, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Možnosti migračního řešení perspektivního úbytku a demografického stárnutí obyvatelstva České republiky [Migration as a Possible Solution to the Future Population Deficits and Demographic Ageing in th…
The article draws on the concept of 'replacement migration', widely presented by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in 2000 and 2001, which elaborated a concept and conducted a comprehensive analysis of international migration as a solution to the problem of population declines and demographic ageing. This concept was applied as an example to selected countries in the world, the European region, and the Eu…
Illegal Economic and Transit Migration in the Czech Republic: A Study of Individual Migrants' Behaviour
This article examines the essential features of international migration and the illegal working activities of migrants in the Czech Republic, with a closer insight into the processes of trafficking and smuggling. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with 63 illegal migrants, both from countries of the former Soviet Union (mainly Ukraine) and developing countries in 2005 and 2006. The main conclusion of the analysis is that, in many…
La migration internationale en République tchèque Aspects démographiques et économiques
Au cours de la décennie 1990, la République tchèque est devenue un pays d’immigration et de transit. La régulation des flux de migrants et leur mode d’intégration sont désormais des questions essentielles. L’article présente les principales caractéristiques de la migration internationale en République tchèque. Compte tenu de l’évolution de la population (solde naturel négatif, vieillissement de la structure par âge), l’immigration ne peut suffire…
Smuggled versus Not Smuggled across the Czech Border
The main goal of this paper is to analyze the spatial behavior of unauthorized migrants in their attempts to irregularly cross the Czech state's “green” border (including walking trails) into Austria and Germany, between 2005 and 2007. It demonstrates the importance of select demographic and human characteristics of the migrants, as well as the physical features of the environment, in their crossing. Our main premise concerning the importance of …
Estimating the Size of the Irregular Migrant Population in Prague – An Alternative Approach
This paper's primary objective is to contribute to the ‘never‐ending story’ of estimating irregular migration. It presents an attempt to develop an empirically based approach/technique for estimating the size of an irregular migrant population, or more specifically of irregularly residing immigrants within the city of Prague. A pilot study, based on discovering the actual number of immigrants residing in selected localities, was conducted via obs…
Immigrants’ Access to Health Insurance: No Equality without Awareness
The Czech government has identified commercial health insurance as one of the major problems for migrants' access to health care. Non-EU immigrants are eligible for public health insurance only if they have employee status or permanent residency. The present study examined migrants' access to the public health insurance system in Czechia. A cross-sectional survey of 909 immigrants from Ukraine and Vietnam was conducted in March and May 2013, and …
Social Hazards as Manifested Workplace Discrimination and Health (Vietnamese and Ukrainian Female and Male Migrants in Czechia)
Social hazards as one of the dimensions of workplace discrimination are a potential social determinant of health inequalities. The aim of this study was to investigate relations between self-reported health and social hazard characteristics (defined as-discrimination as such, violence or threat of violence, time pressure or work overload and risk of accident) among Vietnamese and Ukrainian migrants (males and females) in Czechia by age, education…
Migration and pastoral power through life course: Evidence from Georgia
Social Remittances upon Closer Examination: Moldovan Migrants in Prague, Czechia and Turin, Italy
Our goal is twofold: to contribute to conceptualizing social remittances and to shed new light on who the most important agents of change are. Using data from our own questionnaire surveys, carried out with Moldovan migrants in Prague, Czechia (N = 203) and Turin, Italy (N = 206) in 2017–2018, we applied classification and regression trees analysis. In addition to defining three types of social remittances—interpersonal communication–based, proje…
Geocoding Freeform Placenames: An Example of Deciphering the Czech National Immigration Database
The growth of international migration and its societal and political impacts bring a greater need for accurate data to measure, understand and control migration flows. However, in the Czech immigration database, the birthplaces of immigrants are only kept in freeform text fields, a substantial obstacle to their further processing due to numerous errors in transcription and spelling. This study overcomes this obstacle by deploying a custom geocodi…
Migrant Remitting as Transnational Practice: Moldovans in Italy and Czechia
We examine the relationship between the social practice of migrant remitting and the transnational field connecting Moldova with Italy and Czechia. Using data from a harmonized migrant survey, we estimate ordinal regression models and distinguish two remitting practices. Family remitting is organized around a set of routinized activities and communications that support the survival needs of families, while civil remitting contributes to the long-…
The role of geographical distance in transnational institutional engagement of the Czech diaspora: A comparative study
Engagement with institutions from migrants’ country of origin, both in the destination country and in the country of origin, is distinct transnational behaviour. This study investigates the impact of geographical distance on the institutional engagement of migrants from Czechia in five global regions. We examine how geographic (physical) proximity to Czechia shapes institutional engagement with the country of origin and identify factors beyond di…
Drivers of Return Plans Among Ukrainian War Refugees in Czechia: Challenging Common Assumptions and Refining the Theory
This article examines return plans of forcibly displaced persons from Ukraine in Czechia, which has one of the highest relative shares of Ukrainian refugees in population. It draws on data from two rounds of cross‐sectional surveys conducted in 2022 ( N = 1037) and 2023 ( N = 350), including a panel subsample ( N = 116). Using exploratory network analysis and structural equation modelling informed by the theory of planned behaviour, the study cap…
On the footsteps of parents? Migration experience and aspirations of university students in Moldova
This article investigates the impact of parental migration on the migration aspirations of university students in Moldova. Through 24 semi-structured in-depth interviews with university students, the article aims to answer the questions of what shapes the migration aspirations of young students and whether and to what extent their parents’ migration experience impacts this process. The findings show that young Moldovan students are mainly pushed …
A framework for understanding precarious economic incorporation of Ukrainian refugees in Central Eastern Europe
This article introduces the MoPEI (Mechanisms of Precarious Economic Incorporation) framework, a conceptual-analytical tool for explaining how refugees are steered into precarious labor through the relational and layered intersections of multiple mechanisms. Considering the labor market realities of Central and Eastern Europe, MoPEI identifies six such mechanisms – structural constraints, temporal and legal ambiguity, migration infrastructures, s…
Political science (19 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (11 works) · Czech (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works)