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• “My goal is to help as many people as possible and to become the best professional I can be…” - Roma Student Society students’ vision about their present and future

  140-165

  Fanni Trendl

  Anna Orsós

  Katica Heindl

  Gergely Horváth

  Aranka Varga

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  266

  The study aims to examine perspectives of students in Roma Student Societies in Hungary about their present and future, emphasizing their experiences of social mobility and social responsibility. Complex data collection was applied between 2022 and 2024, involving students within the Roma Student Society Network. The study focuses on the responses of university students who identify as Roma (n=108) and presents a qualitative and descriptive statistical analysis of two open-ended questions. Based on the results, Roma student societies are supportive communities, which besides individual resources and family background, play a prominent role in navigating the challenges associated with upward social mobility. Regarding their future aspirations, family and work play a dominant role, while the intention to help others is also present considerably. These results suggest that Roma student societies support individual academic progress, also contribute to individual mobility, the development of future-oriented attitudes and social responsibility. The study provides contribution to a deeper understanding of Roma youth’s participation in higher education and their social engagement.

• “Brave enough to remove the shell of a chestnut.” The career path of a resilient teacher

  85-101

  Kitti Kozma

  Tímea Ceglédi

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  485

  Being successful at school as a Roma student is a crucial sociological question. Roma teachers’ experience is invaluable when seeking to understand and solve problems that students with similar backgrounds have. Resilience is our academic starting point. In PISA who belong to a lower social class but have higher achievements are called resilient students. Educational sociologists say that a person’s life is resilient when it is successful, notwithstanding the disadvantaged social background (Ceglédi 2018). We have analysed Roma teachers with resilient lives and looked for answers to what kind of possibilities and dangers of a resilient life might hide in the pedagogical career. Given a unique target group, we chose snowball sampling. 6 semistructured interviews were made in eastern Hungary in 2019, in which we emphasized the resilience of their life taken, the pedagogic job, and their connection. We did qualitative analysis of the transcripts. The resilient Roma teachers incorporate their life experience into their pedagogic fields and their coping serves as a model for their students.

• I am who I am. Minority group identification

  102-120

  Tibor Ladancsik

  Fanni Maszlag

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  311

  Over the past half century, there have been rapid changes and reorientation in social processes, which can be perceived empirically, too. Our world has become more interactive, information flow has hastened, and communication technology has constantly been evolving. The accelerated processes, the historical and cultural changes have caused an identity crisis for families belonging to minority groups. The purpose of this study is to present how identification has changed among couples of intermarriage who are living in Vojvodina, and among the members of a community of Roma women living in two Hungarian counties. Similarities and differences in the lives of these two minority groups were investigated. In our research, we have concluded that the opening of mobility opportunities has significantly accelerated assimilation.