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- Title
AZ ELVÁNDORLÁS HATÁSA A KÁRPÁTALJAI MAGYARSÁG HELYZETÉRE.
- Authors
DÁVID, KARÁCSONYI; ÁRON, KINCSES
- Abstract
This study, based on data between 2001 and 2008 from the Office of Immigration and Nationality (Ministry of Interior), examines the migration processes and tries to highlight the decline in the number of Hungarians in Ukraine's Transcarpathian region,. Since the start of the new millennium, in the Carpathian Basin, Transcarpathian Hungarians have had the highest emigration rate and consequently the greatest population decline. However in the whole of the Transcarpathian region, as well as in Ukraine, population has declined overall, indicating that it is a demographic problem rather than an ethnic issue. The main component of population decline to the west of the Nagyszőlős-Ökörmező line is natural decrease, whereas to the east of the line it is emigration. Official Ukrainian statistics show that the number of migrants from the Ukraine to Hungary is small. The reason is that these people („double residents") do not leave their home in Transcarpathia because of the geographical proximity; instead, they mainly became circulatory migrants. The extent of emigration to Hungary indicates that previous population projections significantly understated the decline in the ethnic-Hungarian population in Transcarpathia between 2001 and 2010. Despite the fact that large-scale migration is not likely to lead to a significant shift in the ethnic structure, a vast number of socio-economic and political questions arise. These questions mostly relate to the economic and political incentives (investments, improved transport links, visa approvals) of remaining at home and the alternative of relocation to Hungary (improvement in demographics, taxation, social security).
- Subjects
ZAKARPATSKA oblast (Ukraine); UKRAINE; ETHNICITY; EMIGRATION &; immigration; POPULATION
- Publication
Földrajzi Közlemények, 2010, Vol 134, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0015-5411
- Publication type
Article