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Interaction, migration and change
202 Renata Weinerová principle of solidarity and should financially support threatened persons and their families through interest free loans. It is aimed at persons who find themselves at the borders of poverty, and, without assistance, could fall to the bottom of the social network and become easy prey for usurers. Unfortunately, the Czech state is currently unable to ensure the transformation of the "Social Emergency Fund” into a local self-administrative system and thus the demise of the project is imminent in the future.16 Characteristics of Roma migration in Slovakia Slovakia is first of all a country of origin of Roma migrants. So far, it has not become the migration target country; however, it belongs to transit countries. The territory of the Slovak state serves as a part of the migration bridge between Bulgaria and Poland as well as between Romania and the Czech Republic. While the first migration bridge serves first of all the "entrepreneurial” activities of Bulgarian Roma, the other represents the route for groups of Romanian Roma who unsuccessfully strive to obtain an asylum in Germany.17 Romanian Roma usually end up in Czech asylum establishments, from which they try to get behind the Czech/German border. Motives of Slovak Roma to migrate In Slovakia, we have not carried out any special investigations directed at clarifying the motives of Slovak Roma to migrate. In literature (Vašecka I. 2000; Pluim 2001; Poverty... 2002) the reasons most often cited as the motives of Slovak Roma to migrate are racial discrimination and social economic factors. From the view of the research that we carried out among Roma asylum seekers from Slovakia in the Czech Republic, we can confirm the reasons mentioned above. At the same time, however, we recorded primarily an increased occurrence of motives associated with serious conflicts in the area of interpersonal relations. During field studies, we met
