István Sólyom's interview with Réka Marchut is available on főtér.ro.

The new database contains the number of voters registered as national minority voters in the Hungarian parliamentary elections, the number of voters who turned out and the number of voters who cast a valid vote for the lists of national minority self-governments by nationality, county, settlement and constituency in a searchable format between 2014 and 2022, and is available at HERE.

György Kerényi of Szabad Európa interviewed our colleague: The price of ethnic comfort is relative economic disadvantage: sociologist Zsombor Csata on the linguistic relations of minority well-being. The interview can be read here.

In autumn 2024, Margit Feischmidt was a visiting researcher at the German Centre for Migration and Integration Research (DeZIM). 

The full issue is available on the journal's website.

From the contents

Community - Health

    Hungarian public health efforts in Transylvania

    Pulmonary and venereal diseases care institutions in Transcarpathia (1938–1944)

Roundtable:

    On transnationalisation, the consequences of the 2004 referendum, the impact of dual citizenship, the effectiveness of Hungarian policy for Hungarians abroad after 2010

Studies

    Hungarian-South Slav conflicts in the Baja Triangle 1944-1956

    Eastern European German teachers in refugee language teaching in Austria

    Ethnic economy, Romania and Slovakia

Sources

    Ignác Goldziher in 1919

Our colleagues will give lectures at the presentation of the book Hullóidő on 19th December 2024 in the Szekler National Museum in Sfântu Gheorghe:

Zsombor Csata: Economy and welfare in Szeklerland: what do the numbers say and what do we perceive?  

Nándor Bárdi: Elements of regional identity in Szeklerland.

In the recent episode of the podcast of the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Nóra Kovács talked to Bernadette Csurgó about dance anthropology, its potential and her related research.

Judit Durst presented at the conference of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on 5th December 2024. Her presentation was entitled Financialization of social policy: From selective pronatalism to facilitating the social reproduction of an upcoming (rural) Roma middle class. The case of the Baby expecting loan in Hungary.

János Szilárd Tóth (Institute for Political Science) and Nándor Bárdi (Institute for Minority Studies) of the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences discussed the impact and consequences of the 2004 referendum on dual citizenship on the 20th anniversary of the referendum on 4 December 2024 on the "public sobering channel" Észverés

Csilla Fedinec's article, published in the 3rd issue of Válasz Offline, describes the period since Ukraine's independence in 1991: its nationalism/patriotism, its revolutions (there were not two, but three), and debunks many myths that persist in Hungarian public discourse.