Unpacking the functions of institutions in an emerging diaspora: Hungarian weekend schools in the UK
2023; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 18; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/15595692.2022.2164271
ISSN1559-5706
AutoresAttila Papp Z., E. Kovács, András Kováts,
Tópico(s)Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
ResumoABSTRACTABSTRACTThe paper outlines the functioning of Hungarian weekend schools in the United Kingdom, which are key institutions in emerging diaspora communities. The paper interprets Hungarian weekend schools in two paradigms: it approaches them as diaspora institutions, and also as Anglo-Saxon supplementary schools. One of the paper's main conclusions is that, in addition to the manifest functions of Hungarian weekend schools (e.g., preservation of national identity, mother-tongue education, community engagement), latent functions are also essential, such as the psychological need of belonging to a community, the support of children's educational attitudes, the consciousness of bilingualism, the enhancement of social capital, and integration into the host community. Thus, weekend schools are not only sites for knowledge transfer, but they also provide space for the institutionalization of diaspora as cultural community-building institutions. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAttila Papp Z.Attila Papp Z. is a sociologist, he was born in 1969, in Gheorgheni, Romania. He graduated from the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Timisoara in 1996, and received his PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 2006. His main research areas are: forms of institutionalization of the Hungarian minority communities in Eastern Europe (e.g. education, dual citizenship); education of Roma in Central Europe, and minority education in general. He is editor in chief of the journal REGIO, and at present, he is research professor and director of the Budapest-based Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences. He is also professor at University of Miskolc, Institute for Applied Social Sciences.Eszter KovácsEszter Kovács completed her PhD at Pázmány Péter Catholic University's Doctoral School of Political Theory (Budapest) in 2018. She holds master's degrees in International Studies (from Corvinus University of Budapest) and in Nationalism Studies (from Central European University, Budapest). Currently she is a research associate at the Institute for Minority Studies of the Centre for Social Sciences. Her research interests include migration, return migration, diaspora communities, and diaspora and kin-state policies. She is editor of the journal Regio.András KovátsAndrás Kováts obtained degrees in special education and in social policy at ELTE University, Budapest. He has been an assistant research fellow of the Institute for Minority Studies of the Centre for Social Sciences since 2001. His fields of research are immigration and asylum policies, migrant integration and acculturation. Besides his regular involvement in adult education programmes he teaches about international migration, labour migration, immigrant integration and migration and asylum policy at various university and adult education programmes. Since 1998 he has been in charge of co-ordinating the activities of Menedék – Hungarian Association for Migrants, first as a programme co-ordinator, later as director.
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