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In the Migration Awareness Department, we strive to create balanced and evidence-based materials on the topic of migration. We work with journalists and stakeholders to data-drive and factual products, from audiovisual work, to analytical publications to methodological articles. 

Podcasts, videos, and documentaries

As part of our projects, two Czech-language documentaries were produced by Adela Klingohrová and Iva Knotková about the largest minorities living in the Czech Republic:

• Czech Society with Ukrainian Roots (video in Czech) - This video takes a look at the history of migration from Ukraine to Czechia. We will find out why President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was so supportive of the Ukrainian minority that he supported the establishment of three Ukrainian universities in Czechoslovakia. Why were Ukrainians persecuted in our country, first by the Nazis and then by the Communists? And what was the fate of the Ukrainian workers whose work and lives have been under the mafia's control since the 1990s?

• Czech Society with Vietnamese Roots (video in Czech) - The authors illustrate the fate of Czech Vietnamese through the stories of Hung Le - a successful entrepreneur and owner of the Banh-mi-ba restaurant chain and Suzy Duong - founder of the non-profit Viet Up and the guide company SapaTrip, but also through the stories of their parents and grandparents. You'll learn when and why the Vietnamese started coming here, why Czechoslovakia enthusiastically welcomed them, and why everyone shopped at Vietnamese markets. How did the Vietnamese live and continue to live not only in our country, but also in their ancestral land of Vietnam?
  

We also focus on radio production. In cooperation with journalists Magdalena Trusinová and Martina Pouchla, we have prepared a four-part Czech-language podcast Nowhere Like Home. Here, we try to answer questions related to change of residence, such as when one starts to truly feel at home in a new place, what it takes to really "belong," or how we even define what "home" is.

We reach all kinds of people, young and old, through our Life Around Czechia miniseries (available in Czech), where we've invited guests who were not born in Czechia but love it as much as we do. They teach viewers tips and tricks like how people to get to know the new arrivals from Ukraine, and also how to look within and get to know something about themselves.

For children and teachers, we have prepared a short video with an important message in connection to the arrival of Ukrainian children to Czech schools. In it, we want to highlight that they have lost their entire world in just one day - they have left their friends and their fathers behind, so they may not always be in a good mood or want to laugh and play. They need time, but it's important to notice them and make them feel that we are in this together. children and teachers, we have prepared a short video with an important message in connection to the arrival of Ukrainian children to Czech schools. In it, we want to highlight that they have lost their entire world in just one day - they have left their friends and their fathers behind, so they may not always be in a good mood or want to laugh and play. They need time, but it's important to notice them and make them feel that we are in this together.

Support for teachers

For teachers who want to broach the topic of migration in class:

• The Czech-language handbook Teaching about Migration is intended primarily for secondary school teachers, but also for other educational staff in both formal and informal education. It not only offers basic information on why people migrate, but also focuses on methodological and practical tips on how to communicate the topic of migration to pupils. It presents some principles and concrete steps to prepare for discussing migration in the classroom. The handbook also includes ten prepared lessons on migration, refugees, and climate migration.
• Our set of 13 Teaching about Migration infographics strives to offer an illustrative, fact-based and balanced overview of the most important issues related to migration. It can be of great use in integrating the topic of migration into the curriculum.
  

You can download the handbook, as well as the set of infographics via the links. If you are interested in the printed version, please contact us at migrace@peopleinneed.cz.

Support for journalism students and aspiring journalists

The publication People Between the Lines - A Handbook on Migration for (Future) Journalists focuses on the development of a critical approach in media coverage of topics related to migration, migrants, and the coexistence of majorities and minorities. It offers a new perspective on traditional theoretical journalistic concepts of agenda setting, discourse, framing, gatekeeping or ethics, which are placed in the context of migration issues, with an emphasis on the situation in the EU and in the Czech Republic, Estonia and Slovakia.

We also consider the main actors of integration - municipalities and city districts - for whom we prepared the publication Mainstreaming Integration at the City District Level (available in Czech). The handbook presents a brief analysis of the current situation of mainstreaming at the municipal level, a brief and clear guide on how to proceed in the spirit of mainstreaming when organising (or supporting) community or other public events - that is, how to combine events for foreigners and the majority as much as possible. An essential part of this are the concrete examples of innovative practices that have already worked and that selected municipalities, NGOs, and migrant associations have chosen.

As part of our projects, two Czech-language documentaries were produced by Adela Klingohrová and Iva Knotková about the largest minorities living in the Czech Republic:

The Media and Migration

In 2019, we analysed the media's portrayal of migration across the Czech Republic (in Czech). In cooperation with the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University in Brno, we focused on content analysis of texts about migrants and migration in the Czech media as part of an analysis of media framing of migration issues. We supplemented that with interviews with journalists writing about migration.

We also collaborated on the comparative analysis with colleagues from People in Need Slovakia and the Estonian Mondo. The result is the report Media Coverage of Migration in the Czech Republic, Estonia and Slovakia (2018-2019). In both cases, the aim is to assess the environment in which the media portrayal of migration is created and to assess to what extent this portrayal can be considered balanced. 

Analytical Articles

Our website regularly publishes analytical articles focusing on selected aspects of international as well as internal migration. A common feature of our texts is the effort to be impartial, preferably drawing on primary sources (e.g. UN statistical data), terminological accuracy, comprehensiveness, and relevance, but also illustration with an abundance of maps or infographics. Among the most popular articles are continuously updated pieces on texts on international migration, understanding the distinction between terminology like "refugee," "economic migrant," and "foreigner," as well as articles providing important information about the flight from Ukraine in connection to the 2022 Russian aggression.