Research Institute for Ethnic and National Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The Minority Studies Institute of the Hungarian Academy Sciences was originally set up in 1998 as the Minority Studies Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and became an independent institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in January 2001. Our institute offers a framework for two autonomous research groups: Centre of Jewish Studies and Migration Research Centre. The Institute focuses its interdisciplinary research activities on four areas: the minorities living in Hungary, the Hungarian minorities living in countries neighbouring with Hungary and the Hungarian diaspora in Europe and overseas, the Roma population in the region, the immigrant and migrant population in the region. The Library of the Humanities Research Centre provides a framework for our institute besides other research institutes. Our institute works in close co-operation with the Janos Arany Public Fund which aims at supporting Hungarian scholars working in the neighbouring countries. Our institute runs the office of the Fund. With the financial help of the Janos Arany Public Fund the institute set up research offices in the neighbouring countries in co-operation with local Hungarian research institutions with an aim to study and investigate the issue of language rights, bilingualism and use of the mother tongue in the system of education. The institute has similar function regarding the Domus Hungarica grant system which also aims at supporting Hungarian students and scholars living in the neighbouring countries. In addition to that our institute runs the Co-operation Office of the Hungarian and Slovak Academy of Sciences.

• The situation of the Roma population in Hungary at the beginning of the 21^st century
• Prevention and management of local Hungarian-Roma conflicts
• Hungarian-Slovak-Roma co-existence models in Gomor region
• Re-learning of the mother tongue in the minority education system in Hungary
• Hungarian language in the Carpathian basin
• Assimilation processes in Transylvania and Slovakia
• Minority Autonomy Conceptions of the Hungarian Communities in the neighbouring countries in the 1990s
• Language border in the Carpathian basin at the turn of millennium
• Chronology of the minorities living in Hungary
• Transformation of the self-identity in German, Chroatian and Bulgarian families living in Hungary
• Motivation background of the elites migrating from Transylvania, Subcarpathia and Voivodina to Hungary
• Bilingual education in the Mura region
• Language rights in the neighbouring countries