Abstract
Generally speaking the issue of integration as such is not seen as a priority at all, neither in the media, nor among political parties or in "everyday" life. The Czech Republic still sees itself as a predominantly homogenous country in national terms and is partly justified to do so, when we consider the number of foreigners in the country put against the general population and counting into it number of foreigners who are EU nationals If such questions stir public debate, then they are related to the question of Roma, less often of immigrants and very rarely to asylum-seekers or refugees.
This however does not exclude occasional sensationalistic approach of media to particular subjects such as crimes among foreigners or more recently fall into illegality by some foreigners due to economic crisis. It is not possible within this article to seriously present the situation with racism and xenophobia in the CR in general and more specifically in media but it is useful to have a look at the shadow report written for ENAR (European Network Against Racism 2010), which repeatedly identifies the group most vulnerable to racism as the Roma population not the immigrants.