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• The situation of Hungarian minority households with children in Transcarpatia

  53-71.

  Noémi Loncsák

  Ibolya Czibere

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  61

  In our study, we present the situation of Hungarian minority households with children in Ukrai-nian villages based on the results of our qualitative and quantitative researches. In the explora-tory research, 23 interviews were made, and in the questionnaire, research data were obtained from a total of 139 households and 253 children. We present the poverty of households with children along the standard of living and the deprivation features of the households. The core of our analysis is the specific labor market situation, the earning opportunities,and forms of employment that provide for livelihoods for the households with children. Beside the backward-ness 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.

• Maintenance of minority languages and economic viability of minorities in the mirror of the Transcarpathian linguistic landscape

  119-141

  István Csernicskó

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  27

  The study examines the linguistic landscape of the territories of Transcarpathia (Ukraine) which
  are mostly inhabited by Hungarians in the context of language and economy. It will be presented
  how economically prestigious world languages, English and Russian are displayed in this region.
  We show that economic realities suppress the nationalism of the minority int he linguistic landscape.
  We note that the language policy in support of the language maintenance of the national
  minority can not be successful if it is not related to the development of the economy. If we want to
  improve the economic situation of the Hungarians of Transcarpathia in a multilingual environment,
  the teaching of languages is one of the areas where it is necessary to invest.

• A Comparative Study on the Characteristics of Rural Tourism in Transcarpathia and in the Highland

  63-90

  Enikő Sass

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  34

  The article, after a short historical presentation of those Slovakian (the Highland) and Ukrainian
  (Transcarpathia) regions where Hungarians still play a major role in the population, focuses
  on the perspectives of rural tourism development in the mentioned areas. The research was conducted
  in more phases: 1) review of the relevant literature; 2) searching for the eligible hosts;
  3) evaluation of the questionnaires distributed among the hosts involved in rural tourism in
  Transcarpathia and in the Highland; 4) processing and evaluation of data.
  The main aim of this empirical research was to compare the Highland questionnaire survey
  findings with the Transcarpathian data to identify the similarities and differences in rural tourism
  of these areas that have been developing at different pace and under different socioeconomic
  conditions in the two countries.