Research Areas

• Gender and Civil Society

• Extreme Social Exclusion

• Immigration and Integration

• Roma in the Czech Republic

• Social Innovation

• Human Rights

Courses

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Contact Information and Office Hours

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Languages

• English: proficient user

• French: independent/basic user

• German: independent/basic user

Work Experience

• 2003–present: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University: Chair of the department (from September 2010 - October 2012 and 2016 - cont), teacher and researcher, focus on issues of civil society, immigration policies in the context of social policy and human rights, political theories of multiculturalism, role of EU institutions in the related issues, extreme social exclusion, social exclusion and gender, Roma women, Roma community.

• 2015–2016: Visiting scholar at University of California Berkeley, USA, School of Social Welfare on Fulbright scholarship.

• 2009–2010: Executive director of the Czech Helsinki Committee, Teaching and managing agenda

Education

• 2002–2009: Ph.D. at Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social and Public Policy, focus on immigration and integration policies of the Czech Republic and the EU in relation to civil society organizations

• 1987–1992: Master of art in philosophy, Political philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade University, Serbia

Publications

• MUHIČ DIZDAREVIČ, Selma - SMITH, Joan. Young Homeless People in the Czech Republic: A Comparative Perspective. European Journal of Homelessness, 2011, 5(1), 67-83.

• MUHIČ DIZDAREVIČ, Selma - SOHLER, Karin - LANGTHALER, Herbert et al.. Refugees and Asylum Seekers as Civic and Political Actors in European Asylum Regimes. Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration, 2009, 4(2), 39-52.

• MUHIČ DIZDAREVIČ, Selma. Monitoring integration in the Czech Republic. Measuring and monitoring immigrant integration in Europe : integration policies and monitoring efforts in 17 European countries. 1 vyd. Haag: The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP, 2012, s. 81-98. ISBN 978-90-377-0569-0.

• MUHIČ DIZDAREVIČ, Selma. A Question of Equality. Some Aspects of the Temporary Restrictions in Access to the EU-15 Labor Market in the Czech Republic. Debating Migration: Political Discourses on Labor Immigration in Historical Perspective. Innsbruck/Wien/Bozen: Studienverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4858-8.

• MUHIČ DIZDAREVIČ, Selma. Neregulérní migrace v kontextu imigrační a integrační politiky EU. Neregulérní pobyt cizinců v ČR: problémy a jejich řešení. 1 vyd. Praha: Člověk v tísni, Multikulturní centrum Praha, Organizace pro pomoc uprchlíkům, Poradna pro uprchlíky, 2008, s. 17-22.

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