The prize is given by HUN-REN (Hungarian Research Network) to young researchers with outstanding scientific performance.

Gárdos, J., Egyed-Gergely, J., Horváth, A., Pataki, B., Vajda, R. and Micsik, A. (2023), "Identification of social scientifically relevant topics in an interview repository: a natural language processing experiment", Journal of Documentation. doi: 10.1108/JD-12-2022-0269. Q1, IF: 2,1.

Olt G., Simonovits B., Bernát A., Csizmady A. (2023): Housing Commodification and Increasing Potential Ground Rents in Post-Socialist Budapest. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie,  Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12592 Q1, IF: 4.8

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.

New paper by Tibor Valuch ’The changing world of labour in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe before and after the 1989/90 transition’ has been published in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.

New book chapter by Ana Stojilovska and Mariëlle Feenstra ’Female Voices of Energy Deprivation The Lived Experience of Energy Vulnerable Women in North Macedonia and Austria’ has been published in the book ’Living with Energy Poverty. Perspectives from the Global North and South’ edited by P. V. Herrejón, B. Lennon and N. P. Dunphy.

The chapter by Csilla Fedinec was published in the open access volume by CEU Press titled Ukraine's Patronal Democracy and the Russian Invasion (The Russia-Ukraine War, Volume One) edited by Bálint Madlovics and Bálint Magyar

Abstract

The Russia–Ukraine War has been going on since February 2014, starting after Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity (i.e., Euromaidan) in the winter of 2013–2014. The latter event also marks the birth of a new civil volunteer movement in Ukraine. In the chapter four phases of the development of this movement will be discussed. After a brief description of the “state domination” phase (1992–2013) and the definitions of civil activism in the Ukrainian legal context, the second phase of “political activation” follows with the Revolution (2014). The third phase starts in February–March 2014, with the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, and also involves the subsequent war in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine, collectively named Donbas (other terms used by the Ukrainian government, foreign institutions, and media publicity include, from April 2014, the “Anti-Terrorist Operation – ATO zone”, and from February 2018, the “Joint Forces Operation – JFO zone”). This period already marks the entry into total defense, with the state “catching up” and to a large degree substituted by the activities of the civil volunteer movement. While the birth of the movement during Euromaidan meant social mobilization after the previous large degree of immobility, this phase of total defense involved elements of both mobilization and co-optation by the state and oligarchic actors. The final phase started on February, 24, 2022 with the full-scale Russian invasion. In this period, we can see an active volunteer movement alongside formal state mobilization, with the state and society co-operating in their heroic effort to counter Russian aggression.

New paper by Ana Stojilovska and her colleagues ’Making a Case for Centring Energy Poverty in Social Policy in Light of the Climate Emergency: A Global Integrative Review’ has been published in Social Policy and Society.

Dániel Mikecz's new book entitled "Civil Movements in an Illiberal Regime. Political Activism in Hungary" has been published by CEU Press.

New paper by András Bíró-Nagy and Áron Buzogány ’Beyond Institutional Adaptation: Legislative Europeanisation and Parliamentary Attention to the EU in the Hungarian Parliament’ has been published in Parliamentary Affairs.