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Analýza vhodných přístupů k určování etnické příslušnosti osob a sběru etnicky senzitivních dat v prostředí ČR
| Title in English | Analysis of suitable approaches to the determination of ethnicity and collecting ethnically sensitive data in the Czech Republic |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The study explores the possibilities of collection of ethnic data related to the Roma minority in the context of the Czech Republic from theoretical, practical, and epistemological perspective. The study was realized on the basis of the Czech Ministry of Work and Social Affairs‘ assignment and it analyses various practices of collection of ethnic data in the member states of the EU and their relevance to the specific conditions in the Czech Republic. The study explores the issues of definition of a population based on ethnicity and ways of identification of this population’s members for the purposes of quantitative survey. The identification of ethnicity is conceptualized as epistemological rather than technical problem. The study identifies three approaches in identification of ethnicity and describes their relation to the epistemological aspects of the collection of ethnic data. It is essentialist approach, which conceptualizes ethnicity as an objective condition, that is to be found out; the constructivist approach, which conceptualizes ethnicity as a multidimensional and dynamic process; and the external identification, which emphasizes the ascribed aspects of ethnic identity. Further, the study analyses methodological dilemmas as well as advantages and disadvantages of the three presented approaches in the context of statistical survey and analysis. Finally, the study discuses ethical aspect of the collection of ethnic data. The attachments consist of three parts: conceptualization of the ethnicity from the perspective of social sciences, that follows the social constructivist paradigm; legislative analysis of the collection of ethnic data, that examine various aspects of ethnic data from the legal perspective; and an overview of European statistic survey focused on the collection of ethnic data since 2000. |