Sociologick� �asopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 13-41 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.026  

The arrival of war refugees from Ukraine has tested the functionality of a number of Czech public and social policy systems. In this article, we focus on the healthcare system and its response to the new situation. We use the concept of health system resilience, which is the ability of a health system to maintain or improve access to health services while ensuring its long-term sustainability. We focus specifically on the absorptive capacity dimension. This refers to the ability of a healthcare system to continue to function well and provide the same level of basic health services (i.e. quantity, quality, and equity of access) and population protection...

Sociologick� �asopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 43-63 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.025  

In this article, we examine the collective response to the challenges second-generation Vietnamese in the Czech Republic face. Second-generation migrants are generally expected to integrate easily. In the case of the Vietnamese, this assumption is reinforced by the stereotype of them as a model minority that adapts smoothly and achieves intergenerational upward social mobility. However, we argue that the life trajectories of second-generation Vietnamese are not so straightforward. On the contrary, they have to overcome various obstacles stemming from their hybrid identity and external and intra-group pressures. As a�result, they experience various...

Sociologick� �asopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 65-86 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.024  

After 24 February 2022, tens of thousands of refugees from Ukraine fled to the Czech Republic. The war disrupted their lives, and their future status remains unclear. This article utilises 19 semistructured interviews with highly skilled Ukrainian refugees in different parts of the Czech Republic. It focuses on their ontological security and migration aspirations and, according to these theoretical implications, identifies the key elements that make participants’ lives insecure and limit their position in the Czech labour market. This study explores the uncertainties and resilience associated with temporary protection status and other obstacles,...

Sociologick� �asopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 87-118 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2025.007  

The text focuses on the formation of coping strategies in the biographies of Czech women who left the Czech Republic, especially after 1989, for Egypt, some of whom, with the passage of time, began to return. The text also illustrates how vulnerability is situational and the ways in which, through constructive and adaptive strategies, the women manage challenging life situations and develop adaptability and flexibility at a level that where they acquire a greater ability to successfully withstand adverse circumstances. Using multi-sited research inspired by the biographical narrative interpretative method we (re)constructed chronologies of life stories...