Karl Polanyi Research Center
for Global Social Studies

We launched a Sociology MA program in English at Corvinus University of Budapest in 2019. Now we invite you for a public discussion with some of our present students. You can join in via ZOOM if you click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82906784590 Passcode 144896 This event will follow the book launch on global care migration of Prof Attila Melegh. (Book launch starts at 2 pm.) You can find the link to the book launch here. Information about our program. Photo credit: https:

Towards a scarcity of care? Tensions and contradictions in transnational elderly care systems in central and eastern Europe Book launch and online discussion 27.11.2020, Friday 14:00-15:30 Although to be cared for is an essential physical and emotional need, however, it has become a „scarce commodity”, and inequalities in provision and access to care are increasing on a European scale, too: the increased need for care in countries with a higher position in the economic hierar