02030nas a2200265 4500008004100000022001400041245008800055210007000143300001000213490000700223520119200230653000901422653001201431653002001443653002201463653002801485653001101513100002501524700001801549700002201567700003101589700001801620700002201638856010401660 2025 eng d a2300-168200aMigration and National Identity in Plzeň: What’s Brewing at the Heart of Europe?0 aMigration and National Identity in Plzeň What s Brewing at the H a85-990 v143 a

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.

 

10abeer10aCzechia10amigrant workers10anational identity10aPilsner Urquell brewery10aPlzeň1 aBaldacchino, Godfrey1 aKrčál, Petr1 aNaxera, Vladimír1 aMochernak, Nataliya-Mariya1 aGekić, Haris1 aRedmond, Jennifer uhttp://www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl/content/migration-and-national-identity-plze-what-s-brewing-heart-europe