Abstract
The article deals with the phenomenon of new immigrant integration practices that have been implemented across Europe since the turn of the century. Countries that traditionally used different approaches to immigrant integration in the past started to introduce language and civic courses and tests for immigrants, often as mandatory requirements to obtain stay permits in the host country.
Scholarly debate in the past twenty years refers to these new integration policies as civic integration. The present article aims to contribute to this debate with new data from Central Europe which has been neglected in the academic debate on immigrant integration.
Based on the example of the Czech Republic, this analysis shows the dissemination of civic integration policies eastward and evaluates the development of civic integration use and its characteristics. The analysis also assesses the magnitude of a possible restrictive trend in Czech integration policies with civic integration measures in order to complement academic discussion on the restrictive character of civic integration policies currently implemented in Europe.