<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The purpose of the article is to give an overall description of the situation of Hungarian minority households with children in Ukrainian villages. The region is a marginal area both economically and geographically, being in a peripheral position with little attention falling upon it and even less of the development sources. Furthermore, there is a lack of information on welfare benefits, and no direct statistical data are available on the characteristics of the social policy system.</p><p>As for the total lack of prior statistics on poverty, this essay is meant to be exploratory to show the area’s poverty features, focusing on the children. By the use of combined data collection, including quantitative and qualitative techniques, we gained information by questionnaire surveys of about 253 children in 139 households. There were carried out 23 exploratory interviews as well. The core of our analysis is the specific labour market situation, the earning opportunities, and forms of employment that provide for livelihoods for the households with children. Besides the backwardness of the area studied in the research, the strategies and life situations that characterize the Transcarpathian Hungarians are also presented, which are beyond the known European forms of poverty.</p></abstract>

The purpose of the article is to give an overall description of the situation of Hungarian minority households with children in Ukrainian villages. The region is a marginal area both economically and geographically, being in a peripheral position with little attention falling upon it and even less of the development sources. Furthermore, there is a lack of information on welfare benefits, and no direct statistical data are available on the characteristics of the social policy system.As for the total lack of prior statistics on poverty, this essay is meant to be exploratory to show the area’s poverty features, focusing on the children. By the use of combined data collection, including quantitative and qualitative techniques, we gained information by questionnaire surveys of about 253 children in 139 households. There were carried out 23 exploratory interviews as well. The core of our analysis is the specific labour market situation, the earning opportunities, and forms of employment that provide for livelihoods for the households with children. Besides the backwardness of the area studied in the research, the strategies and life situations that characterize the Transcarpathian Hungarians are also presented, which are beyond the known European forms of poverty.

Hungarian Nationality Ethnic Minorities Living in Poverty and Social Exclusion in Ukraine

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Social Analysis

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The purpose of the article is to give an overall description of the situation of Hungarian minority households with children in Ukrainian villages. The region...

Hungarian Nationality Ethnic Minorities Living in Poverty and Social Exclusion in Ukraine

Published Online: Oct 29, 2020

Page range: 5 - 25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aussoc-2020-0001

Keywords
Transcarpathian Hungarians, households with children, poverty, deprivation, job market, income acquisition, atypical work forms

© 2020 Ibolya Czibere et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Hungarian Nationality Ethnic Minorities Living in Poverty and Social Exclusion in Ukraine

Published Online: Oct 29, 2020

Page range: 5 - 25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aussoc-2020-0001

KeywordsTranscarpathian Hungarians, households with children, poverty, deprivation, job market, income acquisition, atypical work forms

© 2020 Ibolya Czibere et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Transcarpathian Hungarians, households with children, poverty, deprivation, job market, income acquisition, atypical work forms