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The text shows how the transnational field of Czech skilled migration to Western European countries and to developed non-European countries is constructed. It works with quantitative and qualitative data on the Czech diaspora and creates a variant of a transnational field with links to formal institutions on the one hand and personal contacts based on family and friendship ties on the other. It weighs where and under what conditions institutions and friendly connectivities play a role and shows a variety of networks where institutional ties play a crucial role in the target countries. The study indicates that these skilled migrants follow patterns of mobilities between Western EU countries. However, it has been more pragmatic, less focused on the quality of the environments in the destination countries and more direct on building personal social capital. The text shows that the Czech diaspora is highly dispersed yet capable of social mobilisation for joint activities.

Based on desk research, a site visit and 2 interviews with Ukrainian migrants, this paper examines the significance of migration as a Central European phenomenon, even in and around those practices which are deemed to be millenary European traditions. Pilsner Urquell brewery, in Plzeň, Czechia, serves as an ideal research terrain: a capitalist assemblage that brings together individuals at various levels (owners, management, specialised workers, manual labourers) with different identity documentations, statuses and origins, while preparing the traditional Czech beverage. The diversity in status and nationality is linked to the production process as well as to consumption – such as extensive beer tourism as well as alcoholism. In this way, the paper helps to establish the migrant as a constitutive and not an unsavoury derivate persona in contemporary Western society. Behind every glass of beer, there is a shifting vortex of human relations; the actors involved are likely to have different nationality, residency and citizenship statuses, different documents and therefore different rights.

This article addresses the issue of the language rights of Ukrainian school-aged children who arrived in Poland – mostly with their mothers – as refugees fleeing the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, launched on 24 February 2022 as an escalation of the war started in 2014. The paper attempts to systematise the existing knowledge on language rights in the field of education conferred on Ukrainian children enjoying temporary protection in Poland against the background of Polish language policy. The paper relies mostly on the legal-dogmatic method and document analysis. In order to achieve this goal, the article draws on a literature review in the field, the existing estimates, as well as the relevant data on the implementation of the Polish language policy in the area of education. The study identifies key linguistic aspects of the right to education by Ukrainian children attending Polish schools, including provisions for learning Polish as the official language of a host state. This involves preparatory classes and the right to learn foreign languages on the same basis as Polish schoolchildren. Finally, the paper tentatively assesses the actual implementation of the above rights and indicates the need for further empirical research in this area.