Research
Migration policy and its future in the EU (Overcoming stereotypes and prejudices in the field of migration)
prof. Valeriu Mosneaga
Description: An analysis of contemporary migration policies in the EU, and in a number of specific EU member-states (France, Italy, Germany, Slovakia), as well as of factors affecting the change of real time political practices; a prognosis of the main directions in the evolution of contemporary migration policies in the field of labor migration, illegal migration and integration of refugees and asylum seekers. A review of the contemporary approaches to integration of migrants into the EU, of the politics and activities implemented in combating antimigrant attitudes, and migrantophobic stereotypes.
Impact: The resulting data, conclusions, and recommendations will be used to improve the EU’s, Slovakia’s, and Eastern Partnership member-states‘(especially Moldova and Ukraine) migration policies; to assist in the harmonization of collaboration between Slovakia (as an EU member-state), and the member-states of the Eastern Partnership programme (Moldova, Ukraine and others).
Methodology: Research of secondary data, statistical and sociological data; the conducting of sociological research concerning the problems of migration, social integration of migrants, the relationship between migrants and the accepting societies (based on the example of Slovakia, Ukraine and Moldova). The use of content-analysis and discourse-analysis research methods.
We will use 3 basic techniques that analysts or researchers have used to measure migration policies. They are: a) policy dummies (the effect of particular policy changes), b) tracking of major policy changes within each country (to capture changes in migration policy over time, coding policy change using Mayda index, c) comprehensive policy indices (a level of restrictiveness).
Resulting publication: A coordination of a scientific report, 2 collections of scientific papers, and 3 personal scientific papers on the matter of contemporary migration policy in the EU; the matter of migrant integration in the EU member-states‘ societies; the matter of migrants-locals interaction, the combating of migrantophobia, of antimigrant attitudes and prejudices.
Public opinion on migration (case study Slovakia)
Viera Žúborová, Ph.D.
Description: Research will study perception of migration, immigration and integration of migrants in the Slovak Republic. We want to offer not only a view of the public of the integration of migrants in Slovak society and its attitudes regarding immigrants, but also of the view of migrants themselves who seek asylum or citizenship in the Slovak Republic. The aim will be to obtain a complex view of the given problem and to bring a solution of integration of migrants in Slovak society, as well as an improvement of awareness of Slovak society regarding the position of migrants and their importance in relation to the building of an open society.
Methodology: Focus Groups that will allow researchers and students to draw upon respondents´ attitudes, feelings, beliefs, experience and reactions; the conducting of sociological research concerning the problems of migration, social integration of migrants, the relationship between migrants and the accepting societies.
Impact: The resulting data, conclusions and recommendations will be used to improve the view of migrants in the Slovak Republic and assist in the process of better understanding between these two groups (migrants vs society). The resulting works will give a space to continue in the studied problem and, at the same time, to serve as an information database for the academic community pursuing this problem because they will be freely available at the website.
Resulting publications: A specialist study published in international and domestic journals
A diploma thesis
An examen rigorosum thesis
Slovak migration policy as related to the EU migration policy
Ondřej Filipec, Ph.D. + PhD. students
Description: PhD candidates of European studies will study the problem of the EU migration policy and possibilities of its unification with the national policy of the Slovak Republic. At the same time, they will study possibilities of penetration of the European migration policy by means of the method of analysis and deductive method. Our research will be preceded by a secondary data collection and interviews with representatives of migration offices and organisations dealing with the problem of legal and illegal migration. Our research will aim at acquiring a complex view of the studied problem along with possible proposals of application of international norms in the Slovak Republic.
Methodology: To achieve the chosen scientific goals, we will use several procedures of data collection and their subsequent elaboration. Data will be primarily collected by means of structured interviews (qualitative research) which will form the basis for a database, a view platform from the environment of experts studying migration at national and multinational levels. Based on a secondary data collection, researchers will then use an analytical method (quantitative research). Due to the conducted research, they will be able to elaborate the problem in a publication which will be used in the teaching process and will be freely available at the website where it can serve as a primary source for researchers and pedagogues for the sake of a further scientific and research elaboration of the problem.
Impact: The publication will serve as an educational material for university students and will be unique in Slovakia, because only a few experts study this problem and there is no in-depth elaboration of the mentioned problem in Slovakia.
Resulting publications: A specialist study published in international and domestic journals
An examina rigorosa thesis
A doctoral thesis