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Preliminary findings of the civil society monitoring reports presented at the 2018 Roma Week

April 12, 2018

The preliminary outcomes of the monitoring reports prepared by a coalition of 90 NGOs and individual experts were presented during the 2018 Roma Week, in Brussels. The preliminary findings were presented and discussed as part of two events ‘Assessment of EU Roma Framework and ways forward for 2020’ and ‘From quality education to decent employment’.

Hungarian elections under the microscope

April 6, 2018

CEU Center for Policy Studies Research Fellow Sara Svensson commented on the upcoming Hungarian elections in a Swedish Radio weekly podcast on European issues.

New publication @ Routledge: Comparative Perspectives on Early School Leaving in the European Union

Julia Szalai and Agnes Kende, research fellows at CPS, are among the many authors of the book published by Routledge today (April 3, 2018) which aims to summarize the research result of the 5-year long project 'Reducing Early School Leaving in the EU (RESL.eu). Szalai and Kende wrote Chapter 2: Pathways to Early School Leaving in Hungary: Ethnicised Inequalities in Education and the Case of Roma Youth.

The Anthropology of Encounters / A találkozások antropológiája

March 23, 2018

Our former visiting fellow at CPS, Yuko Kambara-Yamane, published a chapter entitled "Encountering in Minority Politics: Reconfiguring the Other in Transforming Communities
in Southern Slovakia" in the latest volume by the Hungarian Cultural Anthropological Association (Magyar Kulturális Antropológia Társaság, MAKAT).

More information about the book is available at the MAKAT website.

With Eyes Wide Shut. Qualified Roma in the Hungarian job market

March 13, 2018

A paper discussing the position of the Roma on the Hungarian job-market, pursuing a subtle understanding of the tangible and hidden obstacles that highly educated young Roma encounter when seeking employment in the for-profit sector, and of the dilemmas that multinational companies face in relating to these prospective employees.