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This article focuses on the problem of the migrant self-identification of displaced Ukrainian academics. The authors propose a typology of self-identities based on the different ways in which academics construct their autobiographical narratives, analysing the metaphorisation of the migration experience, the use of emotives and recurring themes and the temporal structure of narration. Three types of self-identification of Ukrainian academics in emigration are distinguished: ‘mobile academics’, ‘refugee academics’ and the transitional type of ‘displaced academics’. As a result, the authors aim to highlight the dynamic nature of the process of self-identification. The experience of migration, recast in terms of mobility, was a resource that allowed ‘mobile academics’ to construct a more consistent academic identity under extreme conditions. ‘Refugee academics’ – those who were unable to take advantage of professional opportunities in forced migration – demonstrate, in their interviews, that their experience abroad directly stimulated their professional mobilisation and shaped a positive perception of their own strengths and capabilities. Finally, the transition from a ‘refugee identity’ to the identity of ‘displaced academics’ took place in the course of rethinking the meaning of one’s professional activities through the lens of war and raising the significance of these activities to the level of social mission.

This paper attempts to discover whether or not there have been diasporisation processes unfolding among recent Hungarian migrants. Based on the results of an online survey, 3 distinctive groups were identified among Hungarian migrants: a group undergoing a process of diasporisation, a transnational emigrant group with strong political interest and a group that is characterised by indifference in terms of diasporisation and transnationalism. The statistical analysis indicates the presence of these 3 distinctive groups, which allows for a comprehensive analysis of diaspora policy consequences. The paper first introduces a theoretical framework in which Hungarian diaspora communities and diaspora policy can be interpreted. Second, it provides an overview on Hungarian diaspora policy and emigration trends. Third, it offers an analysis of quantitative data on Hungarian migrants and presents a potential typology of Hungarian emigrant groups. Finally, it interprets the results in the context of possible diaspora policy outcomes.

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.