How Orbán’s Fidesz Instrumentalises Hungary’s Roma as an Electoral Prop
Zsuzsanna Árendás and Vera Messing
A senior minister’s vulgar remark about Roma “cleaning train toilets” was no gaffe — it was a campaign programme in miniature.
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Zsuzsanna Árendás
Zsuzsanna Árendás is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences (ELTE) in Budapest and a Research Affiliate at CEU’s Democracy Institute. Her research examines the social reproduction of inequalities through ethnicisation and racialisation, with particular attention to Roma racialisation in Eastern Europe and contemporary labour migration.