Béni L. Balogh's short book reviews of Dávid Turbucz's, Balázs Apor's, Zsolt Krahulcsán's and Gábor Tabajdi's recent books were published in the Ex libris section of the 27 October issue of Élet és Irodalom.

Ildikó Zakariás' and Nora Al-Awami's article Adult Migrants’ Language Training in Austria: The Role of Central and Eastern European Teachers was published in Social Inclusion issue Vol. 11, Issue 4.

Abstract

Language has gained increasing importance in immigration policies in Western European states, with a new model of citizenship, the ius linguarum (Fejes, 2019; Fortier, 2022), at its core. Accordingly, command of the (national) languages of host states operates both as a resource and as an ideological framework, legitimating the reproduction of inequalities among various migrant and non-migrant groups. In this article, we analyse the implications of such processes in the context of state-subsidised language teaching for refugees and migrants in Austria. Specifically, the article aims to explore labour migration, namely that of Central and Eastern European (CEE, including EU and non-EU citizen) professionals—mainly language teachers who enter the field of adult language teaching in Austria seeking a living and career prospects that they cannot find in the significantly underpaid educational sectors of CEE states. This article shows that the arrival of CEE professionals into these difficult and precarious jobs is enabled first by historical processes linking the CEE region to former political and economic power centres. Second, it is facilitated by legal, administrative, and symbolic processes that construct CEE citizens as second-order teachers in the field of migrant education in Austria. Our article, based on ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews, highlights nuanced ways in which historically, economically, and politically embedded language geographies contribute to the reproduction of hierarchies of membership, inclusion, and exclusion in present-day immigration societies.

A round table discussion on Hungarian minorities through the eyes of experts is organised by Egyház és Társadalom (the public, online journal of the EPMSZ and MPR) as part of the Lehet-e? [Can it be?] Forum  with the participation of János Fiala-Butora (HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies), Tamás Kiss (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities) and Nándor Bárdi (HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies).

Location: Háló Community and Cultural Centre (Budapest V. Semmelweis u. 4.)

Date: 31 October 2023 from 17.00

Nóra Kovács will present on October 28th at the annual conference of the Hungarian Cultural Anthropological Association (MAKAT) in Pécs. Her presentation  (with coauthor Zsuzsa Puskás-Vajda) is titled "Sértődés a családban. Egy emprikus pilot kutatás tanulságai" [Taking Offence in the Family. Lessons from an Empirical Pilot Study]

Csilla Fedinec will participate in the Transcarpathia -Ukraine geopolitical roundtable discussion in the framework of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Regional Science Association, organized on the occasion of the Day of Hungarian Science on 2nd November 2023 in Pécs, Hungary, 

More information about the event can be found here.