Research Interests

Zsuzsanna Árendás, PhD is a senior research fellow at the Center of Social Sciences, Budapest. She earned her PhD at University of Pecs in 2008. Zsuzsa has obtained her academic training in multiple fields of social sciences such as in Ethnography, Cultural Anthropology, and Nationalism Studies. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on changing positionality of ethnicity in an Eastern European context described as multiethnic (Southern Slovakia). In the past 15 years she worked on various aspects of human mobilities and on the reproduction of social inequalities- including social and political enactments of citizenship, social integration of immigrants, and migrant vulnerabilities. In her recent work, she focuses on youth and child mobilities. In the context of social inequalities, Zsuzsa’s work also focuses on the sociological aspects of labour relations, on the employment of Roma with high qualifications, and on diversity management in CEE. She has recently been a principal investigator for Hungary in the Horizon 2020 research consortium called MIMY (on integration of migrant youth). Earlier she has participated in EU-funded projects such as ASSESS (on assessing the extent of migrant integration), ENACT (FP 7 on enactments of citizenship), BRIDGE (on labour market integration of qualified Roma youth). Zsuzsa currently researches on the intersectionality of social mobility and schooling in Vienna, conducting a fieldwork among Hungarian immigrants. Her research is funded by the Austrian-Hungarian Action Foundation.