The Effects of Reducing Social Allowance in Rural Hungary - A qualitative inquiry

The research project run by the Pro-Cserehat Association in 2012-2013 aimed to explore the consequences of legislative changes in Hungarian social aid regulations since January 2012.

The legislative change had significant impact on the life of rural Roma and non-Roma populations in underprivileged regions of the country. The following is the excerpt of the studies in social psychology, anthropology, and sociology using the raw material of the interviews conducted as part of the empirical research project. That is followed by a legal analysis matching domestic and international legislation concerning the changes of the social allowance.

• "As I see the world it seems pitch black..." The effects of reducing the social allowance in rural Hungary, 2012 (Download)
  Excerpt of a study in socio-psychology by Sara Bigazzi and Ildiko Bokretas

• "I am to live on this day..." Subsistence strategies of long-term unemployed people. The effects of reducing the social allowance in rural Hungary, 2012 (Download)
  Excerpt of a paper on anthropology by Jozsef Kotics

• Local governments and benefit recipients under pressure by workfare. The effects of reducing the social allowance in rural Hungary in 2012 (Download)
  Excerpt of a sociological study by Zsuzsanna Vidra

• The maze around a social benefit. The effects of reducing the social allowance in rural Hungary, 2012 (Download)
  Excerpt of a paper on the legal background of modifying the employment substitute support on 1 January 2012 by Nora Jakab

• Long-term exclusion from the labour market, poverty, and social policy response - the context of the research. The effects of reducing the social allowance in rural Hungary, 2012 (Download)
  Excerpt by Janos Zolnay

The studies are available in Hungarian at the Butterfly Research website with abridged versions of the studies also available in English: http://www.pillangokutatas.bffd.hu/findings/studies