Luděk Jirka received Ph.D. at Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in Prague (Integral Study of Man – General Anthropology). He spent study stays at Bielefeld University in Germany and at University of California Los Angeles. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies in Hradec Králové and external lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities at Charles university in Prague.
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| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2630-4550 |
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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UN Countries
Roles
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University of Hradec Králové
University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Associate professor -
University of Hradec Králové
University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Research
'The Plan Is No Plan': Ontological Security and Resilience of Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Labour Market
| Authors | Lucie Macková, Nikola Medová, Barbora Frličková, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Czech Sociological Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Growing-up young adults and their social agency in migration: how Ukrainian children initiate and mediate their own migration within the family unit
| Authors | Luděk Jirka |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
High-skilled precarity: The situation of Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic and Poland
| Authors | Luděk Jirka, Mateusz Kamionka, Lucie Macková |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Sociological Studios | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Problematic transition from residence permit for the purpose of studies to having an employment: Non-EU foreign students from post-Soviet countries and Czech immigration policy
| Authors | Luděk Jirka |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Youth in Central and Eastern Europe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migration aspirations: fallible impact of structural factors and incongruence of aspirations claimed by Ukrainian students at the Czech Republic
| Authors | Luděk Jirka |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | HYBRIDA | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Family practices in migration: everyday lives and relationships
| Authors | Luděk Jirka |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Návratová migrace, reemigrace nebo etnická návratová migrace? Potomci krajanů ze západní Ukrajiny a z jižní Moldávie a jejich důvody migrace do České republiky
| Authors | Luděk Jirka |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Český lid |
Jakoubek, Marek and Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2018. Ethnic groups and boundaries today: a legacy of fifty years. London: Routledge. 219 pp. Hb.: £120.00. ISBN: 978‐1138617650.
| Authors | Luděk Jirka |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Social Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Nationality and Rationality: Ancestors, 'Diaspora' and the Impact of Ethnic Policy in the Country of Emigration on Ethnic Return Migration from Western Ukraine to the Czech Republic
| Authors | Ludek Jirka |
| Year | 2019 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Nagasaka, Itaru and Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot (eds.) 2015. Mobile childhoods in Filipino transnational families: migrant children with similar roots in different routes. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 268 pp. €89.99. ISBN: 978-0-230-30079-8.
| Authors | Luděk Jirka |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Social Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Diasporic policy, support of short-term stays in country of ancestors and their impact on intensification of ethnic return migration: Diasporic descendants’ immigration from western Ukraine to the Czech Republic1
| Authors | Luděk Jirka |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture |
Transnationalism, Integration and Identification: A Discussion of the Variability and Dynamics of Social Processes through the Example of Student Migration from Ukraine to the Czech Republic
| Authors | Luděk Jirka, Yana Leontiyeva |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Czech Sociological Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |