Our institution organized the annual international conference of DDI this year. The event attracted participants from 22 countries. 

Our colleague, Réka Marchut, will give a presentation on February 21 at the Living Heritage conference to be held in Nagykároly. The title of her presentation is: "Hungarian world", "Romanian world", the fate of the Swabians of Satu Mare - The history of the Swabians of Satu Mare from 1940 to the present

Programme: Part 1 | Part 2

On February 24, Rajk College is organizing a discussion entitled Bourdieu and Hatred, during which Gergely Pulay will give a lecture on Bourdieu's theories on social inequality.

The volumes of Lucidus Publishing's "Minority Research Library" series are available in the digital reading room of the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies

The study by Marianna Kopasz, Zófia Papp, Csilla Zsigmond, and Ildikó Husz examines the determinants of acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine in Hungary, with a particular focus on trust in science.

Nándor Bárdi participated in the conference entitled Republic: yesterday, today – tomorrow? held by the Institute of Political History on February 5, 2026, in the Political community, responsibility, and common issues – today roundtable discussion. The main topics were the integration deficit in Hungarian nation building and the problems of Hungarian-Hungarian relations.

Our colleague, Réka Marchut, participated in a roundtable discussion on February 6 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the expusion of Germans from Törökbálint. Her discussion partners were András Grósz and Péter Ferenc Somlai. The discusssion was moderated by Vendel Pettinger-Szalma.

On January 27, 2026, a discussion was held at the Csemadok headquarters in Komárom/Komárno on the turning points in the history of Hungarians in Slovakia over the past decades. The host, university lecturer Attila Petheő, posed questions to historian and archivist László Bukovszky, former Slovak government's commissioner for minority affairs, and Iván Gyurcsík, researcher at our institute and university lecturer.

The participants discussed three main topics: they outlined the significance of the period between 1968 and 1989 for Hungarians in Slovakia, then they assessed the events following the regime change in 1989, with particular regard to the 1994 general assembly of elected Hungarian minority representatives in Komárno,  and finally, they analyzed the Beneš Decrees, which reflect the principle of collective guilt and are currently the subject of public debate, as well as the punishability of addressing this issue.

Vol. 11 No. 3 (2025): Research Papers

An article by Ildikó Zakariás was published in the Journal of International Migration and Integration:

Zakariás, Ildikó: Beyond segmentation – Flexibilised jobs, work-devaluation and migrant labour in adult language teaching in Austria. Journal of International Migration and Integration, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-025-01341-2.

The paper examines the international migration of education professionals in the context of neoliberal restructuring and the flexibilisation of welfare. While existing research emphasises the over-representation of foreign citizen workers in lower-paid, lower status labour-market segments of education and welfare, this paper proposes that inequalities may also arise and should be scrutinised within these segments, comprised of foreign citizens and nationals alike. Focusing on the deregulated sector of adult education for refugees, migrants and the unemployed in Austria, our paper explores the construction of skills and professionalism in the field, and the consequences on everyday work conditions of these workers. Our analysis relies on qualitative data collected since 2021, through fieldwork that includes long-term participant observation in two adult education institutions in Vienna, as well as 41 semi-structured qualitative interviews. The analysis reveals various career pathways channelling the workforce into publicly funded adult education in Austria: former schoolteachers arriving from severely under-resourced public education systems of CEE countries are joined by early-career teachers and career-changer professionals, both groups being predominantly Austrian citizens. We found that while very low hourly wages affect all workers irrespective of citizenship, transnational migration and associated resources and valuation frameworks still imply severe inequalities within the field, manifesting in differences of workloads and of career mobility prospects. This perspective complements the existing research on work conditions of migrants in feminised professions of welfare and education, reveals the operation of migration-related inequalities on a previously under-researched sub-organisational scale and draws attention to various interlocking processes of work devaluation beyond the migrant-citizen binary.