Governing Through Rituals: Regulatory Ritualism in Czech Migration and Integration Policy
| Autor: | Karina Hoření, Karel Čada |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Czech
education.field_of_study 060101 anthropology media_common.quotation_subject Labour law 05 social sciences Immigration Population Context (language use) Legislation 06 humanities and the arts language.human_language Politics Political economy Political science 8. Economic growth Regulatory capitalism 050501 criminology language 0601 history and archaeology education 0505 law media_common |
| Zdroj: | IMISCOE Research Series ISBN: 9783030672836 IMISCOE Research Series IMISCOE Research Series-Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets-A Comparative Approach on Legal Barriers and Enablers |
| ISSN: | 2364-4087 2364-4095 |
| Popis: | The Czech Republic has become the target of immigration over only the last three decades; currently, migrants compose 4.5% of the population. Governments in the previous decade have supported the vision of short-term labour migration, and foreigners face many administrative obstacles given the difficult legislation. We employ the concept of regulatory ritualism to grasp the distinctive features of the Czech system. Following Power (The audit society. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997) and Braithwaite (Regulatory capitalism: how it works, ideas for making it work better. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham/Northampton, 2008), we see regulation as a ritualised practice that comforts the public and cements the dominant normative order of migration policy. In this chapter, we introduce the historical and political context of migration policy, its institutional design, the Act on Residence of Foreign Nationals in the Czech Republic, the position of foreigners in Czech labour law, Czech integration policy and the consequences of recent institutional design for migrants. The main barriers of integration are difficult administration, poor knowledge of the language and precarious working conditions. Regulatory ritualism, a result of chaotic and unsystematic legislative work, is characterized by losing focus on achieving the goals or outcomes themselves, it establishes a climate of mutual distrust among those actors involved and places obstacles to collaboration between public authorities and migrants themselves. |
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