Szociológiai Szemle 31(3): 132–157. Educational mobility of Hungarian first- and multi-generational young intellectuals in four countries Attila Papp Z. 1 – Csilla Zsigmond 2 https://doi.org/10.51624/SzocSzemle.2021.3.6 Manuscript received: 29 October 2020. Revised manuscript received: 24 March 2021. Acceptance of manuscript for publication: 20 October 2021. ABSTRACT: Te study examines the characteristics of intergenerational educational mobility among minority Hungarian youth living in Slovakia (Felvidék), Ukraine (Transcarpathia), Romania (Transylvania), Serbia (Vojvodina). Te topic is important because in Hungary there is a paucity of studies that systematically analyse the challenges and coping strategies of frst-generation students in general, or which go beyond minority aspects within social structures. Te paper seeks to fll this gap by exploring frst-generation intellectuals’ social structure and specifc attitudes, based on real life Hungarian-minority experience. Based on a literature review, the authors set up four hypotheses: hypotheses related to social and cultural reproduction, a hypothesis concerning the political consequences of mobility, and assumptions related to minority identity. After test- ing the hypotheses and comparing the frst-generation and multigenerational students’ characteristics, the authors conclude that in the minority context there took place a social and status culture reproduction, and mobility increases the likelihood of conservative political attitudes. Te immobile stratum of minority multi- generational intellectuals tends to be much more liberal and transnational, using Hungarian citizenship as a new pragmatic opportunity. Keywords: frst-generation intellectuals, minority youth, intergenerational mobility, educational mobility INTRODUCTION Te topic of minority Hungarian frst-generation intellectuals created by school mobility is rather under-researched, but we venture to suggest that it is also rare to fnd targeted analyses in Hungary (Ferenci 2003 is a singular exception). In recent years, several writings analysing or presenting minority, Roma life-paths (e.g. Forray 2003, 2004 Székelyi–Örkény–Csepeli 2005, Tóth 2008, Máté 2015, Durst–Fejős–Nyírő 2016, Lukács 2018, Szále 2010) have been published. However, 1 Institute for Minority Studies, Center for Social Sciences; Miskolc University, Institute for Applied Social Sciences, e-mail: pappz.attila@tk.hu 2 Institute for Minority Studies, Center for Social Sciences, e-mail: zsigmond.csilla@tk.hu