Geografie 1960, 65, 21-28
Migration to Larger Towns in Central and Northern Bohemia in 1954-1958
Including the capital of Czechoslovakia there are 25 towns with more than 10 000 inhabitants in central and northern Bohemia. This paper treats of the rate of immigration and its territorial structure, i. e. immigration from the nearest neighbourhood (from the home district); immigration from a more distant place (from another district); immigration from a far-off place (from some other town); immigration from Slovakia. Consequently, according to the type of immigration we distinguish 1) towns increasing due to the influx of persons (30%) from the surrounding district (for instance Mladá Boleslav). Here belong new, fastly developping industrial centres; 2) towns increasing due to immigration from remoter places (towns with well-established industrial tradition, such as Kolín, Ústí n. L. and Chomutov); 3) towns increasing through immigration from far-away places (the largest cities of the state, for instance Prague). Economic relations between individual territories excercise a considerable influence upon the rate of immigration, for instance Příbram and Jáchymov, Mladá Boleslav and the Liberec district. In all investigated cases the rate of immigration from the home county exceeded the rate of immigration from another county. Counties occupying the second and third place on the immigration scale are registered in table II. In the frontier territory the influx of persons to towns is much greater than in the inland. Migration from Slovakia to the frontier towns is 3,5 times greater than to inland cities. Liberec registered a greater influx of immigrants than Ústí n. L., Chomutov attracted more working people than Děčín. The largest portion of immigrants from Slovakia move to Varnsdorf, where the large textil plants attract especially women labourers. Conclusion: From the viewpoint of immigration most active are the towns in the interior of Bohemia (+ 5,8% yearly). At the present the leading position takes up Příbram (with + 56,05 %) followed closely by industrial centres from wide environs of Prague. Records from towns in the frontier territory show, next to the natural increase (+ 8,89%), also an increasing rate of immigration. The greatest influx of people has been registered in Most. The analysis of migration and natural increase has been dealt with separately (literature No. 7.).
