Roman BALAZ & Daniel TOPINKA: The possibility and limits of social services in working with foreign nationals and their families in the Czech Republic

BALÁŽ, Roman. Roman BALAZ & Daniel TOPINKA: The possibility and limits of social services in working with foreign nationals and their families in the Czech Republic. In SO.S. COHESION. Social services, welfare state and places. Section: Impact of the economic crisis in services provisions: Challenges for sustainable citizen's welfare. 2014.

Basic information

• Original name: Roman BALAZ & Daniel TOPINKA: The possibility and limits of social services in working with foreign nationals and their families in the Czech Republic
• Name in Czech: Roman BALÁŽ & Daniel TOPINKA: Možnosti a limity sociálních služeb pracujících s cizinci a jejich rodinami v ČR
• Authors: BALÁŽ, Roman.
• Edition: SO.S. COHESION. Social services, welfare state and places. Section: Impact of the economic crisis in services provisions: Challenges for sustainable citizen's welfare. 2014.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 50600 5.6 Political science
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Keywords (in Czech): sociální služby, cizinci, bariéry, příležitosti, Česká republika
• Keywords in English: social services, foreigners, obstacles, opportunities, Czech Republic

Abstract

The objective of the present study is to use the example of two types of migrant-oriented social services to demonstrate potential problems in the interaction of the integration and the social service policies. Research question of the study: What, in the current context of social services in the Czech Republic, prevents the selected social service centres from providing their services to migrants and what, on the contrary, enables them to do so? In principle, there are four possible answers: Proclamation and actual implementation of policies, the system of securing and providing the social services (transfer of performance and responsibility for the service provision to NGO without any significant NGO’s influence on the method of securing the service), uneven distribution of services across ČR, expert misinterpretation of social prevention services as those which should primarily protect the Czech population.

Links

• LD13063, research and development project: Name: Modernizace a restrukturalizace sociálních služeb ČR: studie vybraných oblastí (Acronym: COST_sluzbyII)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR