This case study focuses on the research activities of the Department of Ethnic Studies of the Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the application of research results in the decision-making sphere. The discussion covers a series of grantfunded enquiries on migration issues commissioned from the Department of Ethnic Studies by grant agencies and on a series of contributions commissioned directly by decision-making bodies. It is of interest that the case study covers a time of major institutional change, which in particular impacted upon the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

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This contribution concentrates upon three main tasks, i.e. to introduce some basic and often rather problematic aspects that are tied to creation and application of migration theories, to briefly describe and explain selected important migration theories/concepts as they developed in the course of time and to discuss a dichotomy between micro and macro approaches while pinpointing problems and challenges that follow from only a partial reflection of a "complex migratory reality". While contributing to improving "conceptualization" of migratory theory building activities, the authors pinpointed the importance to work on new typologies of migration while structuring migratory reality by following differentiating dimensions: 1. "Spatial-administration scale" (internal versus international migration movements), 2. "Analytical scale" - "micro" (individual) versus "macro" (structures) approaches and 3. Developmental aspect (industrial versus post-industrial era).

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