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Activities plan 2008
Activity
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Description
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Development of methodology
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- Feedback on the draft of interview guide
- Changes in interview guide and its review by professional tutors of the project
- Final form of interview guide
- Conduct of first 2-3 interviews in order to identify duration of interviews
- Modification of in interview guide, if necessary.
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Data collection
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In total some 240 interviews will be carried out, 160 of them by external interviewers. The data collection will run in 3 localities (Prague, Brno and Plzeň).
- Organization of the team of interviewers in each locality
- Administration
- Training of external interviewers
- Technical support
- Collection of interview records and organisation of their transcription
- Submission of interviews and their transcriptions to the coordinator of the project
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Realization of interviews
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Approximately one third of the total number of interviews will be carried out by members of the research team.
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Data analysis
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An analysis of the qualitative data using the Atlas program. Continuous data analysis parallel to data collection and modifications of the interview guide. The main analytical work will follow the conclusion of interviews. The data will be analysed in groups based on nationality; in total 5 groups will be analysed.
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Implementation of the activities 2008
During 2008 our research activities were mainly related to a qualitative study of the integration of immigrants on the labour market and into the society in the Czech Republic. During this research phase we focused mainly on the process of integration as perceived by the immigrants themselves. The main research question was formulated as follows: „How are the immigrants integrated on the labour market and in other areas of life in the Czech society?“
The research was carried out as a qualitative multiple-case study and we conducted separate case studies of integration of immigrants of the following origin:
1. EU 15 and several selected highly developed countries (Island, Norway, Australia, Switzerland, the USA, Canada, Japan and New Zealand)
2. New member states of the EU
3. Vietnam
4. Ex-USSR countries (with special stress on the Ukraine; the Baltic states were excluded,)
5. Other third countries: African countries, Asia, Middle East and Latin America (except of ex-USSR and Vietnam)
The project included immigrants who have been living in 3 large cities of the Czech Republic – Prague, Plzen and Brno, and in some cases in their closest surroundings. In each city and for each group of immigrants (‚case‘) we have created a research sample by means of the snowball technique XX In the initial stage we have utilized broader social networks of interviewers and we have also approached immigrants directly in the public space. We were helped by interpreters in our effort to establish contact with immigrants from Vietnam. In the later stage of data collection we decided for purpose-built sampling in order to diversify our research sample.
The data collection was made by series of semi-structured qualitative interviews, which were carried out during the period from April to September 2008. Interviews were led partly by members of the research team (99 interviews) and partly by trained external interviewers. In total, 25 external interviewers participated in the data collection. A great proportion of interviews were conducted in a language, in which the respondent was not a native speaker (most often Czech or English). In some cases the interview was made in the respondent’s mother tongue (e.g. Spanish, French, Russian or English) and some of the interviews were translated by an interpreter (that was a case of most of interviews with Vietnamese and Mongolians). In total, 251 interviews were collected, out of which 75 took place in Plzen, 82 in Prague and 94 in Brno. The number of interviews in each case study varied between 45 and 55. For the purpose of analysis, the data were fully anonymized, so that they did not allow the identification of any of our interviewees. The analysis was made by using Atlas5.ti software.
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