Thesis supervisor: Attila László Melegh
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Corvinus University of Budapest Abbreviation of location of studies: BCE
Description of the research topic:
South Eastern and Central Europe region faces a complex, nationally and regionally diverse set of demographic, migratory and labour market challenges (low or declining fertility, large scale out-migration, brain and care drain, ageing, low labour force participation rate). Together with further aspects like gender, age and the given territorial heterogeneity of the area, they are creating a complex social and political challenges for the various local and national communities. The research area aims at better understanding the longer term migratory, human capital and demographic processes of the SEE area, as well as their effects on labor markets and national/regional economies using macro and micro level historical sociological approaches and analytical techniques.
Literature
Bonifazi, Corrado, Okólski, Marek, Schoorl, Jeannette and Simon, Patrick. International Migration in Europe. New Trends and New Methods of Analysis. Amsterdam: University Press, 2008
Brunnbauer, Ulf. ed. Transnational Societies, Transterritorial Politics. Migrations in the (Post-) Yugoslav Region, 19th–21st Century. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2009.
Fassmann, Heinz, Ursula Reeger and Wiebke Sievers. eds. Statistics and Reality. Concepts and Measurement of Migration in Europe. IMISCOE reports, Amsterdam University Press, 2009.
Massey, Douglas S. et al. Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Portes, Alejandro ed. The Economic Sociology of Immigration. Essays on Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship. Russel Sage Foundation, 1995.
Melegh, Attila (2013) Net migration and historical development in Southeastern Europe since 1950. Hungarian Historical Hungarian Historical Review 1, no. 3–4 (2012): 144–182
Melegh, Attila, Arland Thornton, Dimiter Philipov and Linda Young-DeMarco (2012) Perceptions of societal developmental hierarchies in Europe and beyond: A Bulgarian Perspective, European Sociological Review,
Required language skills: angol Number of students who can be accepted: 1