A belső migráció hatása az etnikai szerkezet átalakulására Dél-Szlovákiában
The impact of internal migration on changes in the ethnic structure of population in Southern Slovakia

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the assessment of the impact of internal migration of the population, especially the suburbanization on the changes in population structure by ethnicity in Southern Slovakia between 1991 and 2021. Since the 1991 census, the number of people who declared Hungarian nationality has fallen from 567,296 by almost 145,000 to 422,065 in 2021. The significant decline in the share and number of the ethnically Hungarian population is mainly attributed to three population processes – international migration, natural reproduction, and assimilation. The results of the research indicate that internal migration also plays an increasingly important role in the change of the ethnic structure. The graphic and cartographic visualization show the decline of ethnically Hungarian population and the transformation of the Slovak-Hungarian ethnic boundary. The ethnic boundary constantly widened towards the south at the expense of the Hungarian homogeneous area, as a result of which the number of settlements with a Hungarian majority is also decreasing significantly. The proportion of the ethnically Hungarian population is declining, especially in the Bratislava agglomeration and in the settlements of Western Slovakia, where the gain from migration is increasingly significance in this developmen.

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