Publication details
Klientský systém a ukrajinská pracovní migrace do České republiky
| Title in English | Client System and Ukrainian Labour Immigration to the Czech Republic |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | immigration; international migration; social exclusion |
| Description | Labour migration from the Ukraine into the Czech Republic has lasted for fifteen years. Throughout this time period the Ukrainians have developed several strategies which provide them with an access to the Czech labour market. One of these strategies is participating in organized system called cliental and among the others it occupies a dominant role. The client system is in terms of power and incomes hierarchized into three stages. At the top of an imaginary pyramid there are groups of organized crime, at the bottom Ukrainian workers. There is a third group standing between these two: so called clients. Their main activity is mediation. They transfer money between mafia and immigrants and they are mediators between supply and demand for workforce on labour market and last but not least they mediate a contact between immigrants and both Czech and Ukrainian bureaus. My intention is to describe the client system, interpret its functions and reasons why it is established in a given form. |
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