The Czech Republic has been experiencing migration (immigration and emigration) at an ever-increasing rate since 1989, with its positive and negative influences and impacts. Its development can also be observed in the proportion of foreigners to the total population of citizens. In 2101, the average age in the Czech Republic will be 47.4 years, while the total population will be approximately the same, mainly thanks to foreigners (that is, 10.53 million inhabitants; in 2018, it was 10.61 million, Projection of the population of the Czech Republic…, 2018. Immigrants (economic) and asylum seekers (refugees de facto – according to international and national legislation) create members of national minorities and representatives of national groups, where we can assume socio-cultural, religious, economic and generational differences. Young immigrants who came to work in the Czechoslovak Republic, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic (according to the territorial arrangement) are currently reaching retirement age – i.e., since 1989, there has been a significant differentiation of the entire population of immigrants and asylum seekers (in general, foreigners legally residing in the territory the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic) and because of this, they show different characteristics that can be reflected in selected aspects of integration.

The aim of the contribution is to familiarize the professional public with the implementation and first outputs of an ongoing project financed by the Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (title “Selected aspects of the integration of foreigners living in the Czech Republic and their relationship to social work”; reg. no. 101/2022/S), whose main goal is to determine the subjective degree of integration (operationalized into predetermined areas – social, cultural, religious, linguistic and work) of the most represented groups of foreigners living in the Czech Republic, taking into account assumed national differences (Vietnamese, Ukrainians, Russians) and other selected parameters – age, length of stay, type of work, religion.

The Czech Republic has been experiencing migration (immigration and emigration) at an ever-increasing rate since 1989, with its positive and negative influences and impacts. Its development can also be observed in the proportion of foreigners to the total population of citizens. In 2101, the average age in the Czech Republic will be 47.4 years, while the total population will be approximately the same, mainly thanks to foreigners (that is, 10.53 million inhabitants; in 2018, it was 10.61 million, Projection of the population of the Czech Republic…, 2018. Immigrants (economic) and asylum seekers (refugees de facto – according to international and national legislation) create members of national minorities and representatives of national groups, where we can assume socio-cultural, religious, economic and generational differences. Young immigrants who came to work in the Czechoslovak Republic, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic (according to the territorial arrangement) are currently reaching retirement age – i.e., since 1989, there has been a significant differentiation of the entire population of immigrants and asylum seekers (in general, foreigners legally residing in the territory the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic) and because of this, they show different characteristics that can be reflected in selected aspects of integration.

The aim of the contribution is to familiarize the professional public with the implementation and first outputs of an ongoing project financed by the Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (title “Selected aspects of the integration of foreigners living in the Czech Republic and their relationship to social work”; reg. no. 101/2022/S), whose main goal is to determine the subjective degree of integration (operationalized into predetermined areas – social, cultural, religious, linguistic and work) of the most represented groups of foreigners living in the Czech Republic, taking into account assumed national differences (Vietnamese, Ukrainians, Russians) and other selected parameters – age, length of stay, type of work, religion.

The Czech Republic has been experiencing migration (immigration and emigration) at an ever-increasing rate since 1989, with its positive and negative influences and impacts. Its development can also be observed in the proportion of foreigners to the total population of citizens. In 2101, the average age in the Czech Republic will be 47.4 years, while the total population will be approximately the same, mainly thanks to foreigners (that is, 10.53 million inhabitants; in 2018, it was 10.61 million, Projection of the population of the Czech Republic…, 2018. Immigrants (economic) and asylum seekers (refugees de facto – according to international and national legislation) create members of national minorities and representatives of national groups, where we can assume socio-cultural, religious, economic and generational differences. Young immigrants who came to work in the Czechoslovak Republic, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic (according to the territorial arrangement) are currently reaching retirement age – i.e., since 1989, there has been a significant differentiation of the entire population of immigrants and asylum seekers (in general, foreigners legally residing in the territory the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic) and because of this, they show different characteristics that can be reflected in selected aspects of integration.

The aim of the contribution is to familiarize the professional public with the implementation and first outputs of an ongoing project financed by the Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (title “Selected aspects of the integration of foreigners living in the Czech Republic and their relationship to social work”; reg. no. 101/2022/S), whose main goal is to determine the subjective degree of integration (operationalized into predetermined areas – social, cultural, religious, linguistic and work) of the most represented groups of foreigners living in the Czech Republic, taking into account assumed national differences (Vietnamese, Ukrainians, Russians) and other selected parameters – age, length of stay, type of work, religion.