Vietnamese community and the Vietnamese organized crime in the Czech Republic: laws, procedures and the eality
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Pron, Elzbieta Maria
Abstract
Vietnamese community has been the inseparable element of the (current) Czech Republic’s ethnic composition since 1950s, when first Vietnamese students and high-skilled professionals came to the Czech State for research, educational exchanges and trainings. The great influx of Vietnamese occurred in the 1970s and 1980s while number of North Vietnam workers was sent for long-term training to Czechoslovak factories in the aim to work off to pay back the North Vietnam’s debts connected with the Czechoslovak weaponry aid during the Vietnamese war. Several of these workers decided to bring their families and stay in Czechoslovakia and further Czech Republic after completion of their contracts. These people set up the social and cultural foundations for establishing the latter Czech Vietnamese community. ecently the community constitutes the third largest migrant community in the Czech Republic, counting 60000 members. Despite of its long presence in the Czech State, the fact it enters several social layers and integrates with Czech society, it remains the least known and closest of the ethnic groups living in there. In several spheres of life the community found its own unique, often semi-legal ways to manage certain problems related to living condition, administration and labour market as well as set up the network of (linguistic, social) services offered to the newcomers. The whole system of semi-legal practises within the Vietnamese community has evolved for several years to the extent of international organized crime in the fields of administrative and legal misuses, organized illegal migration, trafficking in humans and goods. Additionally, the economic crisis that reached Central and Eastern Europe in the second half of 2008 caused numbers of dismissals of the Vietnamese workers employed by the Czech factories and revealed the wide range of illegal practices related to the labour market.he aim of this thesis was to answer two questions: What make Vietnamese community being the target of organized crime and participating in organized criminal activities? How the Czech State can combat the Vietnamese organized crime? The research was conducted in the time span September 2008 – May 2009. The methodology used during the research included printed books, reports as well as the online articles and journals. Alongside, the author carried out a plethora of qualitative interviews with Czech, Vietnamese, Czech State officials, NGO employees, leaders of the Vietnamese associations and scientists focusing on the Vietnamese community.he research findings enclose several possible approaches to fight the most serious features of the Vietnamese organized crime (legal and administrative approach, societal approach, labour market approach). These are only certain methods that might be implemented by Vietnamese community and Czech society, since the Czech and Vietnam States have not recognized the problem of the Vietnamese organized crime in the Czech Republic. Among the findings of the research were new, unpublished problems concerning the Vietnamese community such as: the political capacity, opinions and involvement into Czech politics amid (Czech) Vietnamese; the criminogenic phenomenon of the students’ and studies’ agencies operating within the job agencies.
Subjects
Vietnamese communities in the World
Czech Republic – migrants and ethnic minorities
organized crime
Czech Republic – criminality
SDGs
Type
thesis
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