Pupils with
migration
background
Migration - overview
• 244 mil. migrants – 3,3% from the world population
– Migrant workers 206 mil. (73%)
– Forcibly displaced people worldwide – 65,3 million (26%)
• Refugees 21, 3 mil. = 32%
• Top3 destination: USA(46 mil.), Germany(12 mil.), Russia(11 mil.)
• The population of some countries is made up largely of migrants:
– UAE (88,4%), Canada (21,8%), USA (cca 14,5%), Germany
(14,9%), France (12,1%), UK (13,2%), Australia (28,2%), Swizerland
(29,4%) – 1/3 of the migration community lives in the developed
countries
Specific numbers
• In the EU-28 live aproximately 10% migrants
• In the Czech Republic live 524 132 foreigners (30.11.2017)
• Where are they from?
⁃ Ukraine (116 998 people)
⁃ Slovakia (111 533 people)
⁃ Vietnam (59 727 people)
⁃ Russia (36 739 people)
⁃ Poland (20 645 people)
Graphical representation of the growing
trend in the Czech Republic
Target group
• Who is the migrant? (1 year UN definition)
– Economic migrants
– Refugees (UNHCR)
– Expats
• Czech Republic specifics:
– Minors with the long term and permanent residency
– Illegal minors
Foreigners in the Czech schools (2016/2017)
• 83 214 foriegners = 4,2% of all students
Country of origin of the migrant students (2014/2015)
• Ukraine ( 8000 / 24 % ),
• Slovakia ( 7 149 / 21,5 %),
• Vietnam ( 7 097 / 21,3 % ),
• Russia ( 2 958 / 8,9 % ),
• Bulgaria ( 666 / 2 % ),
• Mongolia ( 696 / 2,0 % ),
• China (503 / 1,5 % ),
• Germany ( 260 / 0,8 % ),
• Armenia (228 / 0,7 % ) etc.
Measures supporting the integration of the migrant pupils in
the EU schools
Mechanism of the support for the migrant pupils in
the EU schools
Barriers in the migrant pupils´ education
• The knowledge of the Czech language
• The ignorance of the intercultural differences and social
situation of the pupil in the complex view
• The absence of the clear coordination concept
• The lack of informations in the field of the education and
integration of migrants
• The wrong way of the inclusion in the school year
• The lack of the qualified teachers
• The unavailable pedagogical diagnostics and counseling (the
ignorance of the previous educational career)
Supporting measures
• The grants of the ministery of education
• The compensatory class
• The classification
• „The state integration programme“ courses
• And other measures within §16, art. 2
(IEP, teaching assistant, etc.)
NGOs working with migrants
• SOZE - Society of Citizens Assisting Migrants
• OPU – Organiztion for aid to refeguees
• Caritas Brno
• PPI - Poradna pro integraci - Counselling Centre for Integration
• CIC – Centrum pro integraci cizinců - The Centre for Integration
of Foreigners
• In Báze Berkat
• SIMI - Sdružení pro integraci a migraci – Association for
integration and migration
• META association – www.inkluzivniskola.cz (!!!)
• The multicultural centre Prague
• …etc.
Resources
• EURYDICE (2004). Integrating Immigrant Children into Schools in
Europe. Brusel: Euridyce.
• KUROWSKI, M. (2016). Vybrané oblasti edukace žáků-uprchlíků v
České republice. Available here: : https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/56187/
pedf_d/.
• TINTĚROVÁ, K. (2015). Co nám říkají čísla o vzdělávání dětí
imigrantů?. Available here: : http://www.eduin.cz/clanky/co-nam-rikaji-
cisla-o-vzdelavani-deti-imigrantu/.
• Migration Policy Institute tabulation of data from the United Nations,
Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2015). Trends in
International Migrant Stock: Migrants by Destination and Origin
Available here:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estim
ates2/estimates15.shtml.