Luděk Jirka
Biographic Data
| ID | 75791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luděk Jirka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luděk |
| FAMILY NAME | Jirka |
| SIGNATURE | JIRKA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hradec Králové |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2630-4550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Highly Skilled Migration from Post-Soviet Countries to Czechia: Experiences of Discrimination and Exclusion
Highly skilled migrants are often regarded as a privileged category of migrants, with many countries competing to attract them to boost their economies by leveraging their expertise and experience. The integration processes of highly skilled migrants have been widely studied in Western Europe, including research on how Eastern Europeans are incorporated into societies. However, this remains an understudied topic in Central Europe (Czechia, Poland…
Perceptions of geopolitical crises by post-millennials in Central and Eastern Europe
This article explores how Post-Millennials in Central and Eastern Europe perceive and respond to multiple, overlapping crises, including war, pandemics, climate change, and digital transformation. Drawing on eight group interviews with students from Austria, Czechia, Poland, and Ukraine, the study analyses how generational experiences shape attitudes toward political, social, and environmental challenges. Building on Karl Mannheim’s concept of ge…
The East and the West: Regional Deservingness and Migration Aspirations of Displaced Ukrainians Living in Poland and the Czech Republic
Scholars of deservingness emphasize the attitudes of host societies toward migrant communities and inter-ethnic stances of migrant groups but not in-group perceptions of deservingness. Based on interviews with Ukrainian citizens who received temporary protection in the Czech Republic and Poland after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, we show that participants classified the fleeing of their fellow citizens from Western Ukraine a…
Extended Kinship and Mobility: The Influence of Non-Nuclear Family Ties on the Migration of Young Ukrainians
The nuclear family, consisting of children, mother and father, is often the primary unit of analysis in migration studies. However, this approach has been criticised for its normative context. More recently, scholars have emphasized the relational perspective and multi-layered family ties when debating the notion of family. Based on qualitative anthropological research in Western Ukraine and in the Czech Republic, this article adopts this approac…
“Fear for children”, Mother-Child Dyad and Future Mobility Trajectories of Displaced Ukrainians in Czechia and Poland: Children as a Factor for Fleeing and Living after the Full-Scale Invasion
This article addresses the issue of children’s care-receiving practices in the context of Ukrainian displacement in Czechia and Poland. Single mothers often need to care for their children alone, creating specific family power dynamics, especially in the setting of transnational reconfiguration, as fathers remain in Ukraine. This article aims to adopt the subjective bottom-up perception of connections associated with navigation in the new environ…
Growing-up young adults and their social agency in migration: How Ukrainian children initiate and mediate their own migration within the family unit
In an earlier period of migration studies, young people were overlooked, but scholars later began to study their position and perspective. Within the transnational family they are often studied as “abandoned” in the country of origin or as reunified with parent(s) in the country of immigration. Nevertheless, in both cases parents are seen as decision-makers whether young people will migrate or stay. A different angle provides studies of independe…
Diasporic policy, support of short-term stays in country of ancestors and their impact on intensification of ethnic return migration: Diasporic descendants’ immigration from western Ukraine to the Cze…
To a remarkable extent, diasporic descendants may have lost the ethnic consciousness of their ancestors. However, central European countries still provide them preferential immigration policies, and many scholars studying ethnic return migration propose that the benefits derived from these policies and pragmatic acting of diasporic descendants explain the rise and fall of diasporic descendants’ return. Based on research conducted in western Ukrai…
The Plan Is No Plan: Ontological Security and Resilience of Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Labour Market
After 24 February 2022, tens of thousands of refugees from Ukraine fled to the Czech Republic.The war disrupted their lives, and their future status remains unclear.This article utilises 19 semistructured interviews with highly skilled Ukrainian refugees in different parts of the Czech Republic.It focuses on their ontological security and migration aspirations and, according to these theoretical implications, identifies the key elements that make…
Migration aspirations: Fallible impact of structural factors and incongruence of aspirations claimed by Ukrainian students at the Czech Republic
Traditional approaches in migration studies are push and pull factors, neoclassical theory of migration and historical-structural approaches, however these approaches are not human-centered because self-identification, self-realization, aspirations or desires of migrants is not adopted. This article, based on qualitative research in the Czech Republic and Ukraine from 2014 until 2022, is aimed at young Ukrainian participants who throughout eight …
Transnationalism, Integration and Identification: A Discussion of the Variability and Dynamics of Social Processes through the Example of Student Migration from Ukraine to the Czech Republic
This article deals with Ukrainian student migration and the convergence of integration and transnationalism. Its main focus is the self-identification of young Ukrainians studying in the Czech Republic. The authors explore and describe international students' different integration and transnational dispositions and also discuss whether these dispositions could be seen as part of antagonistic or synergetic processes. The interconnection between tr…
Ukrajinská migrace do České republiky a její proměny v období epidemie Covid-19
After 1993, the Czech Republic became the target of Ukrainian migrants thanks to its economic development. The migration policy was then set in 2004 and this new political action made Ukrainian migration more controlled and vulnerable. At the same time, non-qualified or low-qualified migrants became the most important workforce. After the economic crisis in 2008, the Czech Republic aspired to receive highly qualified (and low-qualified “important…
Návratová migrace, reemigrace nebo etnická návratová migrace? Potomci krajanů ze západní Ukrajiny a z jižní Moldávie a jejich důvody migrace do České republiky
The terms 'return migration' or 're-emigration' deal with the return of the diaspora to the country of origin and are therefore full of nationalistic perspective. These terms can be useful in the case of a diasporic return to the country of origin, however, the use of the term 'ethnic return migration' should be clarified as well becaus migration of diasporic descendants (to the country of origin of their ancestors) by strategic, rational and pra…
Transnationalism, Integration and Identification: A Discussion of the Variability and Dynamics of Social Processes through the Example of Student Migration from Ukraine to the Czech Republic
This article deals with Ukrainian student migration and the convergence of integration and transnationalism. Its main focus is the self-identification of young Ukrainians studying in the Czech Republic. The authors explore and describe international students' different integration and transnational dispositions and also discuss whether these dispositions could be seen as part of antagonistic or synergetic processes. The interconnection between tr…
The East and the West: Regional Deservingness and Migration Aspirations of Displaced Ukrainians Living in Poland and the Czech Republic
Scholars of deservingness emphasize the attitudes of host societies toward migrant communities and inter-ethnic stances of migrant groups but not in-group perceptions of deservingness. Based on interviews with Ukrainian citizens who received temporary protection in the Czech Republic and Poland after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, we show that participants classified the fleeing of their fellow citizens from Western Ukraine a…
The Plan Is No Plan: Ontological Security and Resilience of Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Labour Market
After 24 February 2022, tens of thousands of refugees from Ukraine fled to the Czech Republic.The war disrupted their lives, and their future status remains unclear.This article utilises 19 semistructured interviews with highly skilled Ukrainian refugees in different parts of the Czech Republic.It focuses on their ontological security and migration aspirations and, according to these theoretical implications, identifies the key elements that make…
Návratová migrace, reemigrace nebo etnická návratová migrace? Potomci krajanů ze západní Ukrajiny a z jižní Moldávie a jejich důvody migrace do České republiky
The terms 'return migration' or 're-emigration' deal with the return of the diaspora to the country of origin and are therefore full of nationalistic perspective. These terms can be useful in the case of a diasporic return to the country of origin, however, the use of the term 'ethnic return migration' should be clarified as well becaus migration of diasporic descendants (to the country of origin of their ancestors) by strategic, rational and pra…
Návratová migrace, reemigrace nebo etnická návratová migrace? Potomci krajanů ze západní Ukrajiny a z jižní Moldávie a jejich důvody migrace do České republiky
The terms 'return migration' or 're-emigration' deal with the return of the diaspora to the country of origin and are therefore full of nationalistic perspective. These terms can be useful in the case of a diasporic return to the country of origin, however, the use of the term 'ethnic return migration' should be clarified as well becaus migration of diasporic descendants (to the country of origin of their ancestors) by strategic, rational and pra…
Ukrajinská migrace do České republiky a její proměny v období epidemie Covid-19
After 1993, the Czech Republic became the target of Ukrainian migrants thanks to its economic development. The migration policy was then set in 2004 and this new political action made Ukrainian migration more controlled and vulnerable. At the same time, non-qualified or low-qualified migrants became the most important workforce. After the economic crisis in 2008, the Czech Republic aspired to receive highly qualified (and low-qualified “important…
Transnationalism, Integration and Identification: A Discussion of the Variability and Dynamics of Social Processes through the Example of Student Migration from Ukraine to the Czech Republic
This article deals with Ukrainian student migration and the convergence of integration and transnationalism. Its main focus is the self-identification of young Ukrainians studying in the Czech Republic. The authors explore and describe international students' different integration and transnational dispositions and also discuss whether these dispositions could be seen as part of antagonistic or synergetic processes. The interconnection between tr…
Migration aspirations: Fallible impact of structural factors and incongruence of aspirations claimed by Ukrainian students at the Czech Republic
Traditional approaches in migration studies are push and pull factors, neoclassical theory of migration and historical-structural approaches, however these approaches are not human-centered because self-identification, self-realization, aspirations or desires of migrants is not adopted. This article, based on qualitative research in the Czech Republic and Ukraine from 2014 until 2022, is aimed at young Ukrainian participants who throughout eight …
“Fear for children”, Mother-Child Dyad and Future Mobility Trajectories of Displaced Ukrainians in Czechia and Poland: Children as a Factor for Fleeing and Living after the Full-Scale Invasion
This article addresses the issue of children’s care-receiving practices in the context of Ukrainian displacement in Czechia and Poland. Single mothers often need to care for their children alone, creating specific family power dynamics, especially in the setting of transnational reconfiguration, as fathers remain in Ukraine. This article aims to adopt the subjective bottom-up perception of connections associated with navigation in the new environ…
Growing-up young adults and their social agency in migration: How Ukrainian children initiate and mediate their own migration within the family unit
In an earlier period of migration studies, young people were overlooked, but scholars later began to study their position and perspective. Within the transnational family they are often studied as “abandoned” in the country of origin or as reunified with parent(s) in the country of immigration. Nevertheless, in both cases parents are seen as decision-makers whether young people will migrate or stay. A different angle provides studies of independe…
Diasporic policy, support of short-term stays in country of ancestors and their impact on intensification of ethnic return migration: Diasporic descendants’ immigration from western Ukraine to the Cze…
To a remarkable extent, diasporic descendants may have lost the ethnic consciousness of their ancestors. However, central European countries still provide them preferential immigration policies, and many scholars studying ethnic return migration propose that the benefits derived from these policies and pragmatic acting of diasporic descendants explain the rise and fall of diasporic descendants’ return. Based on research conducted in western Ukrai…
The Plan Is No Plan: Ontological Security and Resilience of Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Labour Market
After 24 February 2022, tens of thousands of refugees from Ukraine fled to the Czech Republic.The war disrupted their lives, and their future status remains unclear.This article utilises 19 semistructured interviews with highly skilled Ukrainian refugees in different parts of the Czech Republic.It focuses on their ontological security and migration aspirations and, according to these theoretical implications, identifies the key elements that make…
Extended Kinship and Mobility: The Influence of Non-Nuclear Family Ties on the Migration of Young Ukrainians
The nuclear family, consisting of children, mother and father, is often the primary unit of analysis in migration studies. However, this approach has been criticised for its normative context. More recently, scholars have emphasized the relational perspective and multi-layered family ties when debating the notion of family. Based on qualitative anthropological research in Western Ukraine and in the Czech Republic, this article adopts this approac…
Highly Skilled Migration from Post-Soviet Countries to Czechia: Experiences of Discrimination and Exclusion
Highly skilled migrants are often regarded as a privileged category of migrants, with many countries competing to attract them to boost their economies by leveraging their expertise and experience. The integration processes of highly skilled migrants have been widely studied in Western Europe, including research on how Eastern Europeans are incorporated into societies. However, this remains an understudied topic in Central Europe (Czechia, Poland…
Perceptions of geopolitical crises by post-millennials in Central and Eastern Europe
This article explores how Post-Millennials in Central and Eastern Europe perceive and respond to multiple, overlapping crises, including war, pandemics, climate change, and digital transformation. Drawing on eight group interviews with students from Austria, Czechia, Poland, and Ukraine, the study analyses how generational experiences shape attitudes toward political, social, and environmental challenges. Building on Karl Mannheim’s concept of ge…
The East and the West: Regional Deservingness and Migration Aspirations of Displaced Ukrainians Living in Poland and the Czech Republic
Scholars of deservingness emphasize the attitudes of host societies toward migrant communities and inter-ethnic stances of migrant groups but not in-group perceptions of deservingness. Based on interviews with Ukrainian citizens who received temporary protection in the Czech Republic and Poland after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, we show that participants classified the fleeing of their fellow citizens from Western Ukraine a…
Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ukrainian (6 works) · Czech (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works)