Lokális konfliktusok és közösségi stratégiák a pozsonyi agglomeráció magyarlakta településein
Local Conflicts and Community Strategies in the Hungarian-inhabited Settlements of the Bratislava Agglomeration

Summary/Abstract: The effects of suburbanization can be examined from several directions, but in addition to the individual decisions that started it, the real estate market aspects or the transformation of land use, the effects of the process on local communities and the reactions to it are rarely highlighted in the professional sphere. In the course of my work in the agglomeration of Bratislava, the Slovak capital, I researched individual and collective opinions on suburbanization, as well as the questions and potential conflict situations arising among the members of the “host community”. A striking element of the character of the study area is that migration also means a change in the linguistic environment, as the newcomers often arrive from a predominantly Slovak-speaking settlement to an area mostly inhabited by the Hungarian minority; this adds additional components to suburbanization and the responses it generates. Experiences show that the municipalities affected by the process use independent, but in certain elements, similar strategies to control it, and as part of these - in relation to some topics - the ethnic factor also appears prominently.

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