The minority identity and the idea of the ‘unity’ of the nation: the case of Hungarian minorities from Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine

Veres, Valér

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2014.922885

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“…The ethnic Hungarian population in the Carpathian Basin of Eastern Europe identifies itself as a culturally, linguistically and politically homogeneous population sharing the idea of national unity despite having lived in different countries since the border modifications connected to the peace treaties following World War I. Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia, the largest minority groups in these countries, share the idea of a Pan-Hungarian ethnocultural nation and define themselves as a part of it [ 11 ]. Further communities of ethnic Hungarians live in Serbia and the Ukraine; however, these are much smaller in number.…”

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The Sociodemographic Determinants of Health Literacy in the Ethnic Hungarian Mothers of Young Children in Eastern Europe

Sántha

2021

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Parental health literacy is a decisive factor for child health and quality of life. Children of parents with limited health literacy are at increased risk of illness and longer recovery periods. The research at the Quality of Life Research Centre is aimed at studying the health literacy of ethnic Hungarian mothers in Eastern Europe (Hungary, Slovakia, Romania) as well as at assessing its socioeconomic and demographic antecedents. The sample size is 894 mothers. Our standardized online questionnaire includes the HLS-EU-16 and the BHLS questions, with the latter intended to screen for inadequate health literacy. Predictors of health literacy in mothers are socioeconomic status, age and partnership status. A key finding is the improvement of health literacy with age. Assessing the association of partnership status and health literacy is a novelty in this region. Our analysis reinforces the role of socioeconomic capital, widely recognized to be associated with health literacy in general and with parental health literacy in particular. Results indicate the necessity of improving caregiver health literacy with a range of health promotional activities in Eastern Europe, especially among mothers with low socioeconomic status. The hardships of young mothers and single mothers should also be considered in this respect.

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The Sociodemographic Determinants of Health Literacy in the Ethnic Hungarian Mothers of Young Children in Eastern Europe

Sántha

2021

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“…During our data collection in 2017, based on external categorization, it turned out that our Calvinist data provider primarily -but not exclusively -classified the ethnic belonging of the local residents according to their religious affiliation. Their competency for the Hungarian language, or being a native Hungarian speaker did not seem a decisive condition of being part of the Hungarian community, as would be the case in most of the minority Hungarian communities (Veres, 2015). The survey uncovered that the population present in the village had shrunk significantly due to emigration, while the proportion of ethnic Hungarians had also decreased compared to the 2001 census (see Table 1).…”

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Ethnic categorization practices and boundary (re)making in a multiethnic borderland of Ukraine

Erőss¹,

Kovály

Tátrai

2021

Bord. Reg. Stud.

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Multiethnic borderlands, like Transcarpathia in Western Ukraine, are characterized by ethnic-linguistic-confessional complexity where ethnic boundary-making and ethnic categorization are constructed and rooted in politics. The present study aims to analyze how the mechanisms of ethnic categorization and boundary-making play out on a local level. Based on data analysis and fieldwork conducted in Hudya/Gődényháza in Transcarpathia, a village with ethnically, linguistically, and denominationally diverse population, we describe how “ethnicity” is getting blurred and reconstructed in the narrative strategies of residents. We examine the characteristics of the various classification systems (external classification, self-reporting) and their relation to each other. It is found that the ethnic, linguistic, and denominational affiliations in the village (and its wider region) are often divergent, which is reflected in the significant discrepancy between the data gathered in various ethnic classification systems. We argue that denomination is the prime factor of both self-identification and external classification, obscuring the boundaries between religious and standard ethnic terms. We further point to the formation of new boundaries between autochthonous and allochthonous populations. Although this cleavage emerged a few decades ago and has been transgressed by dozens of marriages among autochthonous and newcomers, it can easily get ethnicized, thus it adds an extra layer to the existing distinctions.

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“…Its strength is the possibility to include more than two countries in the analysis with people with the same ethnic and cultural identity. As demonstrated by Veres's (2015) analysis of the 'Karpat Panel' survey of Hungarians in 2007, members of the Hungarian minorities in these countries identify with the 'pan-Hungarian nation' (Veres 2015: 97) but also, to a somewhat lesser extent, with their home country, too, producing an identity of 'regional "Hungarianness"', which is 'primarily ethnoculturally Hungarian, with certain elements of Romanian/Slovakian etc. civic identity' (Veres 2015: 104).…”

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Do political or ethnic and historical borders affect values and beliefs more? Some evidence from Central Europe

Czeglédi

2021

SocEc

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The paper uses data from the World Values Survey and the European Values Study on individuals in Hungary and its neighbouring countries to examine the effects of political borders on different beliefs, as opposed to that of ethnic differences or historical borders. The focus on Hungary and its neighbours is explained by the fact that parts of the Hungarian ethno-linguistic community can be found in all these countries, which makes it possible to separate the effect of culture from that of the current political community. By applying a cultural gravity model which is concerned with the differences in beliefs between all possible pairs of individuals in the sample, the paper finds that out of five areas of beliefs, it is the beliefs regarding work, markets, and democracy whose differences are robustly affected by political borders, giving some support to the approach which argues that values are shaped through the dialogue occurring within a political community.*

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The minority identity and the idea of the ‘unity’ of the nation: the case of Hungarian minorities from Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

The Sociodemographic Determinants of Health Literacy in the Ethnic Hungarian Mothers of Young Children in Eastern Europe

The Sociodemographic Determinants of Health Literacy in the Ethnic Hungarian Mothers of Young Children in Eastern Europe

Ethnic categorization practices and boundary (re)making in a multiethnic borderland of Ukraine

Do political or ethnic and historical borders affect values and beliefs more? Some evidence from Central Europe

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