Abstract:

The presented paper deals with the issue of leisure time activities of immigrants from the countries of the former Soviet Union (USSR), especially Russians and Ukrainians in the Czech Republic, which is their country of residence at present. The aim of the paper is to characterize the way of spending leisure time by university students and workers, to evaluate the benefits and pitfalls of different ways of spending leisure time, to assess the importance of effective spending leisure time for individual development and integration into majority society. Significant attention is paid to linguistic and value aspects. Based on the results of research, conclusions and recommendations are formulated in the field of inclusive pedagogy and pedagogy of leisure time. The tool of data collection is semi-structured interview with immigrants from the countries of the former USSR and with employees of non-governmental organizations that focus on working with migrants in their activities. The data will be analysed by coding (open, axial and selective).

Keywords:

Leisure time, integration of immigrants, Russia, Ukraine, university students, workers, The Czech Republic.