Trust of young adult third-country nationals in the Department for Asylum and Migration Policy in Prague
| Název práce v češtině: | Důvěra mladých migrantů ze třetích zemí v Odbor migrační a azylové politiky v Praze |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | Trust of young adult third-country nationals in the Department for Asylum and Migration Policy in Prague |
| Klíčová slova: | právní vědomí|cizinci ze třetích zemí|důvěra|byrokracie|Česká migrační politika |
| Klíčová slova anglicky: | legal consciousness|foreigners from third countries|trust|bureaucracy|Czech migration policy |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2021/2022 |
| Typ práce: | bakalářská práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Katedra sociologie (21-KSOC) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D. |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd. |
| Datum přihlášení: | 01.09.2022 |
| Datum zadání: | 09.09.2022 |
| Schválení administrátorem: | zatím neschvalováno |
| Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: | 12.10.2022 |
| Datum a čas obhajoby: | 11.09.2023 12:30 |
| Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: | 31.07.2023 |
| Datum proběhlé obhajoby: | 11.09.2023 |
| Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: | odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná |
| Oponenti: | Mgr. et Mgr. Pavla Malvotová |
| Zásady pro vypracování |
| Sociodrama: building confidence of czech-speaking third country residents in the context of legal communication Migration comes together with many concerns for the general population. More than half of Czechs agree that foreigners are the reason for the rise of criminality, however, the percentage of Czech nationals who believe that continues to decrease (Spurný & CVVM, 2020). Czechs tend to overestimate migrants’ participation in criminal activities. Research has shown that migrants committed only 7% of all crimes, however czech citizens guessed that it was 29% on average (Median for iDNES, 2017). Interestingly, there is the opposite tendency in estimating how many migrants are the victims of crimes such as human trafficking, work exploitation, bribery, hate crimes etc. According to a study (Harris & Gruenewald, 2019, 452-470) conducted on a database of more than 2200 news stories during the time period 1990-2013, immigrants were 2 times more likely to be portrayed as perpetrators than as victims of crime. Moreover, the prevalence of framing migrants as victims continued to significantly decline over the chosen period of time. These biases and attitudes are reflected in the need for migration regulation by bureaucratic mechanisms and migration policies. That is to say, knowing how to navigate the czech legal system is an important survival skill in one’s stock of knowledge at hand. The ministry of the interior decided to approach this issue by launching adaptation-integration courses in the beginning of 2021 (Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, 2022). These courses last for 4 hours and must cover basic information about functioning in the Czech Republic, where a foreigner will learn czech values, their rights, duties and czech culture. However not everyone is obliged to absolve it, it varies based on type of residence permit and year of arrival to czech republic. Moreover, these courses offer only theoretical knowledge. Practical skills for legal communication can be more challenging than just memorizing various articles and paragraphs about rights and obligations. A migrant needs to be able to express what they want and why they’re entitled to it. Building confidence and persistence is crucial for successful legal communication. However, there are some obstacles to that. First, there is a language barrier, which can affect the clarity of self-expression and understanding. Misunderstanding and mistakes in communication with the government can have serious consequences in some cases. Second, stress and nervousness can also negatively affect the quality of production and perception of speech. Another obstacle is so called legalese - the gobbledygook used by lawyers and officials, which is very far from plain language and it can sound very advanced for a person, who just started learning the language. A great depiction of this struggle with legalese is shown in Netflix’s miniseries Maid (Metzler, 2021). In the second episode Alex, the main character, comes to the family court to fight her abusive ex for custody of their daughter. She has no lawyer and it is her first experience with the legal system. Even though all the people in the court are native speakers, the legal language seems so unfamiliar to the main character, that all she can hear is “Your honor Ms Russel has failed to legal, legal, legal and she’s legally legal, we ask the court to legal, legal, legal.” The goals of this work are, on one hand, to produce collective knowledge of issues that arise in communication with czech officials and strategies that can be used in solving them. On the other hand, this research is seeking to empower and engage the community of migrants. Participation in public life is very limited in Czech Republic (Solano & Huddleston, 2020), thus migrants are denied the opportunity to improve it, build trust with the general population and contribute to democracy. Suitable methodology for these goals is sociodrama. Sociodrama is a group learning process focused on providing practice in solving problems of human relations (Sternberg & Garcia, 2000, xvii). Sociodrama is divided into 3 main parts - warm-up, enactment and sharing. The first part prepares the participants for the play, using different ice-breaking techniques for people to feel more comfortable with each other, discuss shared experiences of struggles and come up with the situation they want to explore more in further parts. In the next part, the members will spontaneously enact the chosen situation. It will help them to better understand the shared central issue, try out different strategies in a safe space and express their emotions without a fear that it will affect their residency. And the last part is sharing, in which the members will reflect on the enactment, it will provide a feeling of closure and connection with others. For the purposes of this study I’m going to select 8-10 czech-speaking foreigners from 3rd countries with long-term residence. Bigger group might be harder to control and moderate. I will try to balance the group from gender perspective, however, from my experience with sociodrama, I can tell that men are less likely to participate in it. Also, it will be good to have people from different cultural backgrounds and length of stay in the Czech Republic. It might be insightful to ask a legal counselor from a migrant organization to join the research. In conclusion it will be possible to examine whether the chosen methodology can be applied for this problem. Throughout all the stages of sociodrama, I will be able to collect data for deeper understanding of obstacles that foreigners can face in their legal communication and strategies of dealing with this kind of situations. Last, but not least, I will be able to collect feedback about the chosen methodology and its effects on the participants. |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
| Czech Statistical Office. (2021, December).Foreigners in the Czech Republic. https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/142284148/29002721.pdf/2c3be929-27a5-459e-bee0-7e2aae4705f5?version=1.1 Harris, C. T., & Gruenewald, J. (2019, August). News Media Trends in the Framing of Immigration and Crime, 1990–2013.Social Problems,67(3), 452-470. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spz024 Median for iDNES. (2017, February 23).Vnímání bezpečnosti a kriminalita. https://www.median.eu/cs/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MEDIAN_vyzkum_iDNES_Kriminalita.pdf Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic. (2022, January 20).Adaptačně-integrační kurzy. Ministerstvo vnitra. https://www.mvcr.cz/clanek/adaptacne-integracni-kurzy.aspx Solano, G., & Huddleston, T. (2020).MIGRANT INTEGRATION POLICY INDEX 2020: Measuring POLICIES TO INTEGRATE MIGRANTS Across Five Continents. Fundación CIDOB. https://www.mipex.eu/czech-republic Spurný, M., & CVVM. (2020, March).Postoje české veřejnosti k cizincům. https://cvvm.soc.cas.cz/media/com_form2content/documents/c2/a5203/f9/ov200430b.pdf Sternberg, P., & Garcia, A. (2000).Sociodrama: Who's in Your Shoes?Praeger. |