Ukrainians in the Czech Republic

There is a large national community of Ukrainians in the Czech Republic. The Ukrainian national minority in the Czech Republic together with the citizens of Ukraine make up the largest membership base with more than 194,833 members.

Ukrainian citizens in the Czech Republic as of December 31
YearPop.±%
2011118,932—    
2012112,549−5.4%
2013[1]105,138−6.6%
2016[2]110,245+4.9%
2018[3]131,302+19.1%

Labour migration from Ukraine or southeast Slovakia to what is now the Czech Republic began to grow to a large scale in the early 1990s.[4] In 1991, there were just 8,500 Ukrainian citizens on Czech territory.[5] However, as of October 2009, figures of the Czech Statistical Office showed that number had grown to 132,481, making Ukrainians the largest group of foreigners in the Czech Republic, with a 30% share of the foreign population.[6]

Some registered Ukrainian association in the Czech Republic
  • International association “Ukrainian Freedom”, president: Bohdan Kostiv. Official pages
  • International non-governmental organization “Coordination Resource Center”, General director: Olexandr Petrenko. Official pages
  • International Association of Ukrainians EuroMaidan z.s., leader: Mykhaylo Toporov
  • Rodyna, o.s., leader: Yosyp Klymkovych. Official pages
  • Společnost Ivana Kondura, leaders: Jiří Klán, Petr Novák, Lenka Kondurová. Official pages
  • Ukrainian Business Club in Czech Republic z.s., chairman: Taras Yakubovskyi
  • Ukrajinská iniciativa v České republice, z.s., leaders: Viktor Rajčinec. Official pages
  • Ukrajinská iniciativa Jižní Moravy z.s., leaders: Marija Wazi-Nobilisová. Official pages
  • Ukrajinská tradice v České republice, z.s., leader: Bohdan Rajčinec. Mirror of Ukrajinská iniciativa v České republice; same location, same statutes etc.
  • Misie Ukrajinské Pravoslavné Církve v České republice, z.s., leaders: Oleksandr Schramko.

The main activities of international organizations, in particular, the "International non-governmental organization “Coordination Resource Center”" also include issues of the electoral process in Ukraine and monitoring it.

Ukrainian mass media in the Czech Republic

Periodicals in Ukrainian

Notes
  3. Foreigners, total by citizenship as at 31 December 2018 1). Czech Statistical Office.
  4. Nekorjak 2006, p. 89
  5. Markus 1994, p. 149
  6. CSO 2009

Bibliography
  • Markus, V. (1994), "Ukrainians in the Czech and Slovak Republic", in Pawliczko, A. L. (ed.), Ukraine and Ukrainians throughout the World: The Demographic and Sociological Guide to the Homeland and Its Diaspora, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 147–159, ISBN 978-0-8020-7200-9
  • Nekorjak, M. (2006), "Klientský systém a ukrajinská pracovní migrace do České republiky", Sociální studia (1): 89–109, ISSN 1214-813X
  • Cizinci podle typu pobytu, pohlaví a státního občanství/Foreigners: by type of residence, sex and citizenship (PDF), Czech Statistical Office, 2009-10-31, retrieved 2009-12-23

Further reading
  • Drbohlav, Dusan (1999), Imigranti v České republice: s důrazem na ukrajinské pracovníky a 'západní' firmy operující v praze (PDF), Budapest: Open Society Institute, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16
  • Nekorjak, M. (2005), "Pracovní migrace Ukrajinců do České republiky", in Hučko, L. (ed.), Duchovní a kulturně společenská podpora integrace národnostních menšin, Praha: Apoštolský exarchát Řeckokatolické církve v České republice, pp. 21–36, ISBN 978-80-239-6410-3
  • Uherek, Z. (2001), "Rekonstrukce vybraných podmínek života pracovní migrace z Ukrajiny v České republice na základě šetření na Zakarpatské krajině – případová studie", Zdravotní politika a ekonomika (3): 93–103
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