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• „We were born here, we grew up here, our relatives and our children are here… everything are in our village”. Weekly commuting in a village of Tiszahát

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  The study present the weekly commuting in a small village of 1600 resident in Tiszahát. The
  economic situation of the settlement, employment and income opportunities are lower than
  national average, which also has an extremely strong impact on the livability of the village.
  The local primary labor market can employ few workers, other employees can work in public
  employment or they can work as a seasonal worker in agriculture buti it does not provide an
  income that can be calculated all year. There are few opportunities in the region, so they can
  not work in the nearby settlements. Many locals have to go to remote settlement for work. We
  prepared interviews to examine: how weekly commuting became popular in the village and how
  it affected local families and the local community.

• Changes in family decision-making and division of labor among weekly families

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  Zsuzsa Kukucka

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  68

  The study deals with the transformation of decisions and division of labor within the family by
  processing the results of a qualitative, interviewed study of the target group of weekly workers.
  The study shows how decisions are restructured according to roles within the family and how
  the roles of women and men change as a result of the regular absence of one family member.
  From the point of view of the approach to domestic work, the differences between weekdays and
  weekends, which can be considered as a consequence of weekend, come to the fore. In the course
  of the analysis, we examined whether there was a change in the decision-making processes
  within the family as a result of the weekly (and if so, what areas were affected by the change)
  and whether there was a radical change in the division of family responsibilities as a result of the
  weekend. I present the results on the basis of two dimensions, on the one hand, of the phenomena
  of disposition and decision-making over income, and, on the other hand, of the division of family
  responsibilities and problem-solving.

• Some demographic characteristics of long-term commuting in Hungary

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  52

  The study aims to show the most important demographic characteristics of long-term
  commuting workers and the emerging territorial disparities using the latest available statistics.
  The main motivation for commuting, including long commuting, is still to get the job they deem
  appropriate, but about a quarter of a million people take on much greater burdens than average
  and only travel home weekly or less frequently in Hungary. Most of them make this decision by
  force, as there are no job opportunities in their place of residence, but the income they provide is
  very important for their families. Long-term commuters mostly do seasonal work (construction,
  catering, etc.) and work in physical jobs. Unsurprisingly, men are more likely to take on the life
  form with increased physical and psychological strain, but not only the heads of the family in
  their forties, but also young people in their 20s who are not yet independent of their families
  are represented in large numbers. Long commuting is characterised by marked territorial
  inequalities, and those affected mainly start from villages, despite the fact that the high level of public employment in the most disadvantaged areas is affecting the direction of the stay of the
  workforce.

• Two sides of one coin: Social network of commuter and their families

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  34

  People around a person have important roles of the social integration and form of quality of life.
  Changes in the life circumstances like getting a job or changes of the workplaces have significant
  effect to egocentric social network. In a new workplace usually shape new relationships. Then
  again, it is also possible that besides increasing of number of new contacts, there will be those,
  which are drop out from the personal network. Paper shows the rearrange of the personal
  social network of people who works as a commuter and theirs partnerships. Commuter is a
  person who works far from his/her home and he/she goes home weekly or rarely. This topic was
  examined making interviews in 2019 (N=24). On the one hand, these interviews revealed a wide
  and confidant family and kin networks. On the other hand, it seems that, due to the workplaces
  and the common activities at the workplaces and other places (accommodation, shopping etc.), commuter can make new, long-term and confidant friendships which complete his/her family
  relationships and make their social capital stronger.