Abstract
Living and Dealing with Limited Opportunities: Social Disadvantage and Coping Strategies in Rural Peripheries
Highlights
Naďa is a woman in her mid-twenties
Our study of rural disadvantage and the corresponding coping strategies in the Czech Republic is based on qualitative interviews with rural residents affected by various forms of disadvantage, living in three peripheral rural regions
The Žihle region in the western part of the Czech Republic, the Hanušovice region by the Czech–Polish border in the Jeseníky Mountains and the Brumov-Bylnice region by the Czech–Slovak border were selected as study sites
Summary
After spending three years on maternity leave, Naďa became unemployed, as she gave up her job as a kindergarten teacher during her pregnancy. She has been searching for a job without success for one year now. In the rural region where Naďa lives, a limited number of firms offer jobs, predominantly in industrial plants. She is prepared to accept a manual job in the plants. The time requirements of the jobs are not compatible with her child-care duties, as workers are expected to accept both morning and afternoon shifts but the local kindergarten closes at four o’clock in the afternoon and Sociální studia / Social Studies 2/2016.
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