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Who Prefers to Stay? Individual and Institutional Factors Supporting Immobility among Minority Hungarian Higher Education Students Cover

Who Prefers to Stay? Individual and Institutional Factors Supporting Immobility among Minority Hungarian Higher Education Students

Open Access
|Jun 2025

Abstract

Based on the migration models proposed by J. Carling, de Haas, and K. Schewel, we examine the immobility aspirations of minority and majority Hungarian students in Central Europe. Our aim is to identify individual as well as institutional factors that we hypothesise support students in developing their immobility aspirations. We analyse empirical data collected through a survey in 2019 among students of Hungarian-language higher education institutions in Hungary, Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, and Serbia (N = 2,210). The results of multivariate and logistic regression analyses show that the development of immobility aspirations is supported by socio-demographic factors and social networks, as well as by institutional and academic factors, such as training programmes preparing students for local professions, and a greater degree of trust in the higher education institution and role partners.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tdjes-2025-0005 | Journal eISSN: 1854-5181 | Journal ISSN: 0354-0286
Language: English
Page range: 129 - 152
Submitted on: Sep 4, 2024
Accepted on: May 4, 2025
Published on: Jun 30, 2025
Published by: Institute for Ethnic Studies
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2025 Zsuzsanna Sütő, published by Institute for Ethnic Studies
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