Judit Durst
Biographic Data
| ID | 1252191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judit Durst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judit |
| FAMILY NAME | Durst |
| SIGNATURE | DURST J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-2303-3589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Involved Fatherhood Among Roma Men: Class, Kinship, and Caring Masculinities in Post‐Socialist Hungary
Scholarship on fatherhood has increasingly emphasised men’s practical and emotional involvement in childcare; yet, this research has largely focused on majority middle‐class populations. Roma fathers in Hungary are often stereotyped from a deficit view, and their practices remain underexplored. This article draws on two qualitative projects: (a) long‐term ethnographic fieldwork in a marginalised, lower‐class Roma settlement in Northern Hungary; a…
Solidarity in Ethnically Diverse Contexts: Supportive Relations of First‐Generation Roma Graduates’ Social Mobility in Hungary
The relationship between Roma and non‐Roma in Central and Eastern European countries is determined by growing socio‐economic inequalities, racism based on structural inequalities, and far‐right policies of scapegoating. This trend is reinforced by the generally low level of social mobility. However, parallel to the main trend, a less visible process enables the social mobility of people of Roma origin born into marginalised, socio‐economically lo…
False promises and distinct minority mobility paths: Trajectories and costs of the education-driven social mobility of racialised ethnic groups
This Special Issue (SI) enquires into the trajectories and consequences of education-driven social mobility among members of racialised and minoritised ethnic groups in a variety of geographical settings. It explores commonalities in the socalled distinctive minority mobility path that are typical for many racialised minorities in different social contexts – from Asia through post-socialist Eastern European countries to Western Europe and North A…
Reconciling habitus through third spaces: How do Roma and non-Roma first-in-family graduates negotiate the costs of social mobility in Hungary
This article explores how first-in-family-graduate Roma and non-Roma Hungarians from the working-class experience education-driven social mobility and reconcile the dislocation of their primary-habitus due to changing class through transiting a ‘third space’. Drawing on Bhabha’s and bell hooks’ development of this concept, we aim to unpack the different ways how class-changers, in moving between the social milieu of their origin and their destina…
Meaning making and resilience among academically high-achieving Roma women
This paper investigates the self-narratives of academically high-achieving, first generation college educated, and highly resilient Roma women. We place their meaning making and social navigation processes at the centre of our inquiry, understanding it as an important element of the resilience process of upward mobility (Ungar 2012). Self-narratives describing their changing social class and the corresponding dilemmas offers us the opportunity to…
Racialisation rules: The effect of educational upward mobility on habitus
This paper explores the subjective experiences of education-driven upward mobility among firstin-family majority and minority (Roma) graduates in Hungary. The central question is how social ascension through educational mobility and the concomitant movement between different social worlds influence the habitus. Under what conditions does the habitus become destabilised as a result of upward mobility? The paper benefits from the empirical results …
Introduction. Cultural migrants? The consequences of educational mobility and changing social class among first-in-family graduates in Hungary
The focus of the special issue of these papers is the investigation of the consequences of education-driven upward mobility of first-in-family graduates in Hungary. All papers except one draw on the findings of a 3-year research project that aimed to explore the int as 'first-generation intellectuals ersectional effect of class, race and gender on the outcome and the price of different mobility trajectories of first-generation intellectuals. 3 Th…
Accumulating Roma cultural capital: First-in-family graduates and the role of educational talent support programs in Hungary in mitigating the price of social mobility
Based on 165 in-depth, narrative life story interviews with first generation graduates, fieldwork with educational support initiatives and auto-ethnography, this article contributes to the literature on whether and how structural educational inequality can be compensated by talent support programs and whether and how these programs can mitigate the price of education-driven upward social mobility for those Roma and nonRoma Hungarians who come fro…
Constrained choices, enhanced aspirations: Transnational mobility, poverty and development. A case study from North Hungary
This paper aims to contribute to the exploration of the nexus of poverty, migration and development by providing what has been lacking thus far; namely, a close ethnographic portrait, combined with a survey, that interprets the most typical and diverging migration trajectories and their impacts in an economically backward and ethnically differentiated region in Hungary. Building on the inspirational work of anthropologists and mobility scholars w…
Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
I always felt the odd one out: Work-life balance among graduate Romani women in Hungary
n\t\t\t\tThis paper analyses work orientations and family formation strategies among college-educated Romani women in Hungary. We demonstrate through our in-group and inter-group intersectional analysis of the life stories of 53 women, gathered by in-depth interviews, how preferences regarding work and family are constructed in this group. We argue that there is no such thing as ‘free choice’ for our women in their struggle to reach their desired…
Fertility and childbearing practices among poor Gypsy women in Hungary: The Intersections of Class, Race and Gender
This article explores changes in childbearing practices among Gypsy (Roma) women in a small village in Northern Hungary. The author benefited from several years of ethnographic field research and data collected in this village, where the proportion of the out-of-wedlock births and births to teenage—mostly Gypsy—mothers have increased by a factor of three in the past 10 years as the population of the village has become more and more impoverished a…
False promises and distinct minority mobility paths: Trajectories and costs of the education-driven social mobility of racialised ethnic groups
This Special Issue (SI) enquires into the trajectories and consequences of education-driven social mobility among members of racialised and minoritised ethnic groups in a variety of geographical settings. It explores commonalities in the socalled distinctive minority mobility path that are typical for many racialised minorities in different social contexts – from Asia through post-socialist Eastern European countries to Western Europe and North A…
Reconciling habitus through third spaces: How do Roma and non-Roma first-in-family graduates negotiate the costs of social mobility in Hungary
This article explores how first-in-family-graduate Roma and non-Roma Hungarians from the working-class experience education-driven social mobility and reconcile the dislocation of their primary-habitus due to changing class through transiting a ‘third space’. Drawing on Bhabha’s and bell hooks’ development of this concept, we aim to unpack the different ways how class-changers, in moving between the social milieu of their origin and their destina…
Fertility and childbearing practices among poor Gypsy women in Hungary: The Intersections of Class, Race and Gender
This article explores changes in childbearing practices among Gypsy (Roma) women in a small village in Northern Hungary. The author benefited from several years of ethnographic field research and data collected in this village, where the proportion of the out-of-wedlock births and births to teenage—mostly Gypsy—mothers have increased by a factor of three in the past 10 years as the population of the village has become more and more impoverished a…
I always felt the odd one out: Work-life balance among graduate Romani women in Hungary
n\t\t\t\tThis paper analyses work orientations and family formation strategies among college-educated Romani women in Hungary. We demonstrate through our in-group and inter-group intersectional analysis of the life stories of 53 women, gathered by in-depth interviews, how preferences regarding work and family are constructed in this group. We argue that there is no such thing as ‘free choice’ for our women in their struggle to reach their desired…
Fertility and childbearing practices among poor Gypsy women in Hungary: The Intersections of Class, Race and Gender
This article explores changes in childbearing practices among Gypsy (Roma) women in a small village in Northern Hungary. The author benefited from several years of ethnographic field research and data collected in this village, where the proportion of the out-of-wedlock births and births to teenage—mostly Gypsy—mothers have increased by a factor of three in the past 10 years as the population of the village has become more and more impoverished a…
I always felt the odd one out: Work-life balance among graduate Romani women in Hungary
n\t\t\t\tThis paper analyses work orientations and family formation strategies among college-educated Romani women in Hungary. We demonstrate through our in-group and inter-group intersectional analysis of the life stories of 53 women, gathered by in-depth interviews, how preferences regarding work and family are constructed in this group. We argue that there is no such thing as ‘free choice’ for our women in their struggle to reach their desired…
Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
Constrained choices, enhanced aspirations: Transnational mobility, poverty and development. A case study from North Hungary
This paper aims to contribute to the exploration of the nexus of poverty, migration and development by providing what has been lacking thus far; namely, a close ethnographic portrait, combined with a survey, that interprets the most typical and diverging migration trajectories and their impacts in an economically backward and ethnically differentiated region in Hungary. Building on the inspirational work of anthropologists and mobility scholars w…
Meaning making and resilience among academically high-achieving Roma women
This paper investigates the self-narratives of academically high-achieving, first generation college educated, and highly resilient Roma women. We place their meaning making and social navigation processes at the centre of our inquiry, understanding it as an important element of the resilience process of upward mobility (Ungar 2012). Self-narratives describing their changing social class and the corresponding dilemmas offers us the opportunity to…
Racialisation rules: The effect of educational upward mobility on habitus
This paper explores the subjective experiences of education-driven upward mobility among firstin-family majority and minority (Roma) graduates in Hungary. The central question is how social ascension through educational mobility and the concomitant movement between different social worlds influence the habitus. Under what conditions does the habitus become destabilised as a result of upward mobility? The paper benefits from the empirical results …
Introduction. Cultural migrants? The consequences of educational mobility and changing social class among first-in-family graduates in Hungary
The focus of the special issue of these papers is the investigation of the consequences of education-driven upward mobility of first-in-family graduates in Hungary. All papers except one draw on the findings of a 3-year research project that aimed to explore the int as 'first-generation intellectuals ersectional effect of class, race and gender on the outcome and the price of different mobility trajectories of first-generation intellectuals. 3 Th…
Accumulating Roma cultural capital: First-in-family graduates and the role of educational talent support programs in Hungary in mitigating the price of social mobility
Based on 165 in-depth, narrative life story interviews with first generation graduates, fieldwork with educational support initiatives and auto-ethnography, this article contributes to the literature on whether and how structural educational inequality can be compensated by talent support programs and whether and how these programs can mitigate the price of education-driven upward social mobility for those Roma and nonRoma Hungarians who come fro…
Reconciling habitus through third spaces: How do Roma and non-Roma first-in-family graduates negotiate the costs of social mobility in Hungary
This article explores how first-in-family-graduate Roma and non-Roma Hungarians from the working-class experience education-driven social mobility and reconcile the dislocation of their primary-habitus due to changing class through transiting a ‘third space’. Drawing on Bhabha’s and bell hooks’ development of this concept, we aim to unpack the different ways how class-changers, in moving between the social milieu of their origin and their destina…
False promises and distinct minority mobility paths: Trajectories and costs of the education-driven social mobility of racialised ethnic groups
This Special Issue (SI) enquires into the trajectories and consequences of education-driven social mobility among members of racialised and minoritised ethnic groups in a variety of geographical settings. It explores commonalities in the socalled distinctive minority mobility path that are typical for many racialised minorities in different social contexts – from Asia through post-socialist Eastern European countries to Western Europe and North A…
Solidarity in Ethnically Diverse Contexts: Supportive Relations of First‐Generation Roma Graduates’ Social Mobility in Hungary
The relationship between Roma and non‐Roma in Central and Eastern European countries is determined by growing socio‐economic inequalities, racism based on structural inequalities, and far‐right policies of scapegoating. This trend is reinforced by the generally low level of social mobility. However, parallel to the main trend, a less visible process enables the social mobility of people of Roma origin born into marginalised, socio‐economically lo…
Involved Fatherhood Among Roma Men: Class, Kinship, and Caring Masculinities in Post‐Socialist Hungary
Scholarship on fatherhood has increasingly emphasised men’s practical and emotional involvement in childcare; yet, this research has largely focused on majority middle‐class populations. Roma fathers in Hungary are often stereotyped from a deficit view, and their practices remain underexplored. This article draws on two qualitative projects: (a) long‐term ethnographic fieldwork in a marginalised, lower‐class Roma settlement in Northern Hungary; a…
Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Ethnic group (7 works) · Social mobility (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works)