Research Interests

Ethnicity, nationhood, migration, civil society, philanthropy, humanitarianism

Selected Publications

Zakariás, Ildikó, & Al-Awami, Nora (2023). Adult Migrants' Language Training in Austria: The Role of Central and Eastern European Teachers. Social Inclusion, 11(4), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i4.7220

Zakariás, I., Feischmidt, M., Gerő, M., Morauszki, A., Zentai, V., & Zsigmond, C. (2023). Solidarity with Displaced People from Ukraine in Hungary: Attitudes and Practices. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-023-01096-8

Zakariás, I., & Feischmidt, M. (2022). Suffering and Vulnerability Reconfigured. Ethnographies of Deservingness: Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality, 45, 304.

Zakariás, Ildikó. Kinship Idioms and Care-Control Dynamics in Hungarian Co-ethnic Philanthropy. Voluntas (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-022-00460-z

Zakariás, Ildikó, Feischmidt, Margit: ‘We Are That In-Between Nation’: Discourses of Deservingness of Hungarian Migrants Working in Institutions of Refugee Accommodation in Germany, Sociology (2021) 55(2) 400-420, DOI: 10.1177/0038038520941690

Sik, Domonkos ; Zakariás, Ildikó: The field of solidarity in times of a pandemic: Results of an online survey in Hungary, INTERSECTIONS: EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIETY AND POLITICS 7 : 3 pp. 36-59. , 24 p. (2021)

Feischmidt, Margit, Zakariás, Ildikó: How Migration Experience Affects the Acceptance and Active Support of Refugees? Philanthropy and Paid Work of Hungarian Migrants in the German Immigrant Service, JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE STUDIES 18 : 4 pp. 481-497. , 17 p. (2020)

Zakariás Ildikó: Othering and Recognition: National Ideologies in Donor-Recipient Encounters in Hungarian Co-Ethnic Philanthropy, Revue européenne des migrations internationales, 2019/1 (Vol. 35), p. 215-237.

Zakariás, Ildikó – Feischmidt Margit: Producing the nation through philanthropy: legitimizing co-ethnic and pro-refugee civic action in Hungary, forthcoming, Nations and Nationalism

Feischmidt, Margit ; Zakariás, Ildikó: Politics of Care and Compassion: Civic Help for Refugees and Its Political Implications in Hungary—A Mixed-Methods Approach In: Feischmidt, Margit; Pries, Ludger; Cantat, Celine (eds.) Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe, CHAM : Palgrave Macmillan, (2019) pp. 59-99. 

Zakariás, Ildikó: Jótékony nemzet. Szolidaritás és hatalom a kisebbségi magyarok segítésében 2018, Budapest, Kalligram – Regio Könyvek

Research Projects

Work, values, hope in spaces of solidarity. The possibilities and limits of transformative solidarity in Hungary

Solidarities Reconfigured: Central-Eastern European Migrants Working in Refugee Services in Austria

The Support of Ukrainian displaced people: collective forms and social relations of solidarity

Mobility, competition and solidarity. Hungarians in Germany

Co-ethnic philanthropy supporting ethnic Hungarian minority communities

Humanitarian support for refugees in Hungary