Research Interests
I am an ethnographer, conducting researches in a multidisciplinary field of Social Anthropology, Anthropological Demography, Economic Sociology/Anthropology, Urban/Rural Sociology and Sociology of Migration. I wrote my PhD thesis on the reproductive behavior of poor Roma communities in North Hungary. My latest project is on 'Social mobility and ethnicity : trajectories, outcomes, and the hidden costs of educational mobility". I am also currently part of a Hungarian research team working on the migration-development nexus in backward regions in Hungary. I’ve been long carrying on ethnographic fieldwork in "shanty villages" in North-Hungary, studying precarious low-wage work abroad, informal money lending and indebtedness among the poor.
Selected Publications
Durst Judit: „De ugye biztos nem lesz ebből baj?” : Posztterepmunka, kooperatív etnográfia, avagy módszertani reflexiók az informális gazdaságot övező félelem csendjének megtöréséről (“It’s not gonna be a trouble of this, isn’t it?”: Postfieldwork, cooperative ethnography, or methodological notes on how to break silence on researching informal economy). SZOCIOLÓGIAI SZEMLE 27:(2) pp. 88-111. (2017)
Durst Judit, Fejős Anna, Nyírő Zsanna: „Másoknak ez munka, nekem szívügyem”: Az etnicitás szerepe a diplomás roma nők munka- család konstrukcióinak alakulásában (“For Others its’ Job, for Me it’s Soul Work”: The Role of Ethnicity in the Construction of Work-Life Balance Among Roma College Educated Women. SOCIO.HU : TÁRSADALOMTUDOMÁNYI SZEMLE 6:(2) pp. 198-225. (2016)
Durst Judit: Juggling with Debts, Moneylenders and Local Petty Monarchs: Banking the Unbanked in ‘Shanty-villages’ in Hungary. REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY OF THE HUNGARIAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 25:(4) pp. 30-57. (2015)
Judit Durst: New Redistributors in Times of Insecurity: Different Types of Informal Lending in Hungary. In: Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha, Martin Fotta (szerk.): Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015. pp. 49-67. (ISBN:978-1-78238-879-1)
Durst Judit: "What makes us Gypsies who knows...?!": Ethnicity and reproduction. In: Stewart M., Márton Rövid (szerk.): Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Romany Studies: Selected Papers from Participants of Central European University's Summer Courses 2007-2009. 298 p.
Budapest: Central European University, 2010. pp. 13-35. (ISBN:978-963-9776-76-0)
Durst Judit: Fertility and childbearing practices among poor Gypsy women in Hungary: the intersections of class, race and gender. COMMUNIST AND POST-COMMUNIST STUDIES 35:(4) pp. 457-474. (2002)
Research Projects
Solidarity as an answer to the crisis caused by the pandemic: actions and discourses
OTKA K- 111 969 Senior Researcher in the project titled “International migration from Hungary and its impact on rural societies”/Külföldi munkavállalás és hatása az elmaradott vidéki társadalmakra. Kutatásvezető: Váradi Monika
OTKA K- 125 497 „Social Mobility and ethnicity: Trajectories, outcomes and hidden costs of high academic achievement”/ Társadalmi mobilitás és etnicitás: Az iskolai sikeresség útjai, kimenetei és rejtett költségei. Kutatásvezető: Durst Judit
Work in Progress
Nyírő Zsanna- Judit Durst: Soul Work and Giving Back: Ethnic Support Groups and the Hidden Costs of Social Mobility. Lessons from Hungarian Roma Graduates.
Intersections. EEJSP 4(1): 88-108.
http://intersections.tk.mta.hu
