PhDr. Bc. Michal Dimitrov, Ph.D.

Michal Dimitrov received his bachelors’ degrees in area studies (2006) and journalism (2007) and masters’ degree in German and Austrian studies (2009), all from the Charles University in Prague. His research interests are migration, integration and populism. In his doctoral thesis (2017), he focused on the local integration policy on migrants in Berlin a Vienna 1971–2011. In 2008, he completed an internship at the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag, Internationales Parlaments-Stipendium) in Berlin, two years later he was awarded a fellowship by the International Center for Journalism of the Freie Universität Berlin (October 2010–July 2011). Within the program of the European Journalism-Fellowships (EJF), he did research on “Integration policy in Berlin 1971–2011”. Apart from his academic career, he has worked as a freelance journalist (reporter, editor, commentator and presenter) for Česká televize (Czech Television) since 2005. From 2009–2011 he published ca. 70 articles at the newsportal iHNed.cz/Hospodářské noviny, covering German speaking countries.

 

Publications

• Dimitrov Michal. „Rakousko“. In: Michal Kubát, Martin Mejstřík and Jiří Kocian (eds.), Populismus v časech krize. Praha: Karolinum, 2017, 76–93.
• Dimitrov, Michal. „Auf dem Weg zur Chancengleichheit und Diversität? Wiener Integrationspolitik 1990–2010“. In: Zeitgeschichte No. 2 (2012), 127–150.
• Dimitrov Michal. „Im Spannungsfeld zwischen staatlicher und lokaler Integrationspolitik: Politische Partizipation von Migranten in den Einwanderungsstädten Berlin und Wien.“ In: Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Studia Territorialia Vol. 12, No. 3–4 (2012), 9–41.
• Dimitrov Michal (interview). „Kenan Kolat: Participation ist the key to integration”. In: Open Citizenship No. 2 (2011), 96–97.
• Dimitrov Michal (review). „Thilo Sarrazin, Deutschland schafft sich ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen“. 15., durchgesehene Auflage. München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2010. 466 p. In: Acta universitatis Carolinae – Studia territorialia No. 1 (2011), 103–111.
• Dimitrov Michal, Integrace imigrantů v Rakousku po roce 1990 na příkladu spolkového hlavního města Vídně. Praha: MatfyzPress, 2010, 169p.

Lecturing

• Contemporary Issues Seminar (in German)
• Contemporary History of Germany Seminar (in Czech)