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Kényszerű mobilitás: migrációs utak hátrányos helyzetű vidéki terekben
Forced mobility: migrant trajectories in peripheral rural areas

Author(s): Monika Mária Váradi, Judit Durst, Fehér Katalin, Krisztina Németh, Tünde Virág
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: MTA TK Szociológiai Intézet
Keywords: migratory agency; aspirations; capabilities; social capital; networks

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents evidence related to an ongoing qualitative research carried out in three rural areas of Hungary. Drawing on de Haas’s meta-theoretical concept of migratory agency, we interpret migration as a function of aspirations and capabilities. This approach allows us to identify the structural conditions within Hungarian society which prompt Roma and non-Roma people to migrate, and which shape migration aspirations and capabilities. The main question posed is to identify the kinds of human, cultural and social capital that migrants have access to, and can mobilise in the process of migration.

  • Issue Year: 7/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 25-46
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Hungarian