Torsello, Davide - Pappová, Melinda: Social Networks in Movement. Time, interaction and interethnic spaces in Central Eastern Europe - Nostra Tempora 8. (Somorja-Dunaszerdahely, 2003)
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284 Štefan Šutaj 2001, the first partial results were completed (Homišinová 2001a, 2001b). The research conducted on the Hungarian ethnic minority in Slovakia relates, but is not restricted, primarily to its history. Among the most significant projects are the following: a historical socio-psychological study on the descendants of “Re-Slovakised”13 persons and a socio-psycho-historical survey conducted on a sample of teachers belonging to the Slovak and the Hungarian nationalities (Zelová et al 1992; Bačova and Šutaj 1993). In regard to historical themes, our interests concerned, first of all, questions of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia after 1945, with particular emphasis on schools, deportation of Hungarians to Czech lands, “Re-Slovakisation”, population migration and statistics (including their impact on the present), and current problems in Slovak-Hungarian relations (Gabzdilová 1991, 1997, 1999a; Šutaj 1993a, 1993b, 1995, 1997; Gabzdilová and Homišinová 1994; Molnár and Šutaj 1997). In November 1995, in cooperation with the Historical Institute of SAV in Bratislava, a workshop of the Slovak-Hungarian committee of historians, titled “The role of churches in the development of nations” was held in Košice. The Ruthenian/Ukrainian minority Our Institute also devotes particular attention to the problems of the Ruthenian/Ukrainian minority14 in Slovakia. In this area, an intensive cooperative project was initiated with the Centrum Etnosociologiji ta Etnopolityki Institut Sociologiji NANU Kyjiv (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev). Historical research has been conducted within the framework of VEGA grant projects. In addition to these historical aspects, the long-term decrease of the Ruthenian/Ukrainian population is another focus of our analysis. We have the following explanations for this decrease: fears that after the annexation of Zakarpatska (Subcarpathian Ukraine) by the ex- Soviet Union, the problem of north-eastern Slovakia will be solved in a similar way; and the various consequences of the
