A Year in Transylvania – or the Supplications and Sighs of a Poor Vagant Wandering through Transylvania over the Exceedingly Sour State of Affairs in Erdély Cover Image

Egy év Erdélyben – avagy az Transylvániában kóborló szegény vágáns könyörgései és sóhajtásai az erdélyországbeli állapotoknak felettébb savanyú voltáról
A Year in Transylvania – or the Supplications and Sighs of a Poor Vagant Wandering through Transylvania over the Exceedingly Sour State of Affairs in Erdély

Author(s): Zoltán Ferkó
Subject(s): Welfare services, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: Transylvania; migration; minority experience; everyday life; social change

Summary/Abstract: Based on a year-long personal stay in Transylvania, the article offers a reflective, essayistic account of contemporary social, demographic, cultural, and infrastructural conditions. Through concise observations grounded in lived experience, it examines migration, minority life, language use, everyday administration, and changing patterns of coexistence, outlining a nuanced outsider’s perspective on present-day Transylvania

  • Issue Year: 2025
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 118-120
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Hungarian
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