Kárpátaljai magyar szülők külföldi munkavállalásának hatása a fiatalok kockázati magatartására
The Impact on Left Behind Children of Transcarpathian Hungarian Parents’ Employment Abroad in the EU

Summary/Abstract: Euro-orphan/EU orphan is a neologism naming left behind children when the parents leave hearth and home for some time to find employment abroad. The study of children that have been left behind in the field of social sciences is still at an early stage of development. It only uses limited research of a larger database of EU orphans, their mothers, fathers, and grandparents. The paper presents the results of a 2019 survey whose primary aim was to reveal Transcarpathian Hungarian EU orphans’ risk behavior. It tries to answer two main questions: (1) what are the basic statistics of 14–17 year olds in transnational Transcarpathian Hungarian families, and (2) what deviations can be seen within the main theme of the research in the data of children that were left behind compared to the youth brought up in a traditional family model, i.e. what are the negative consequences of the parents’ (father or mother) employment abroad? Our analysis is not comprehensive; numerous questions are left unanswered and will form the subject matter of further research.

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