Rethinking Urban-Rural Relations/Migrations in Central-Europe

Abstract

This special issue is the result of a bilateral project titled Anthropological study of rural-urban and urban-rural migrations in Central Europe: The case of Slovenia and Hungary (BI-HU /21-22-002), which was financially supported by the Slovenian Research Agency. From the Hungarian side, it was carried out with the support of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary, from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (2019-2.1.11-TÉT-2020-00175). The project aimed to foster further collaboration between the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Faculty of Arts at University of Ljubljana and the Department of European Ethnology – Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs, and joint research of the dynamic of rural-urban and urban-rural migrations/relations and impact on everyday life in Central Europe

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“…So far, I have conducted interviews and observations in 65 farms in the vicinity of Budapest, in the Balaton Highlands and in 3 The practices of contemporary Hungarian cheesemakers come from a diverse social and historical background, the details of which I will present in my forthcoming dissertation. However, they are heavily over-represented by first-generation farmers moving from the city to the countryside, the spread of which is a global phenomenon and is becoming increasingly prevalent in Hungary ( Van der Ploeg 2018, 21-27, 91-122;Bali 2014;Bartulović 2022;Csizmady-Csurgó 2012;Csurgó 2013;Farkas 2018;Nemes et al 2022;Svetel 2022;Turk Niskač 2022) 4 Along this line of questioning, the topic fits into the main question of my doctoral dissertation, where my main question, which frames the topics, is what factors shape the economic practice and decision making of a farm, how it is composed, and what influences the decision-making of an economy.…”