Research Interests

Discourses of exclusion, extremism and differnet forms of racism: anti-gypsims, Islamophobia

Roma and disadvantaged groups on the labour market and in education

Changing forms of social and ethnic exclusion

Child-trafficking, prostituion, violence against women and children

Selected Publications

Vidra, Zs. and Félix, A., (2023). Measures against right-wing extremism in an illiberal country. The case of Hungary. Politics in Central Eastern Europe. Forthcoming

Vidra, Zs. and Zeller, M. (2023). Hungary. in: McNeil-Willson, R. and Triandafyllidou, A. Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience. Forthcoming

Zeller, M. C., & Vidra, Z. (2021). Illiberalism, polarisation, social resilience, and resistance: Concepts in dynamic tension. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 7(4), 1-12.

Vidra, Z. (2019). Countering Islamophobia in Hungary. In Countering Islamophobia in Europe (pp. 123-151). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Vidra, Z. (2018). Hungary’s punitive turn: The shift from welfare to workfare. Communist and post-communist studies, 51(1), 73-80.

Research Projects

• PUSH*BACK*LASH „Anti-gender backlash and democratic pushback”Horizon Europe (2023-2025)
• Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism and Polarisation (BRaVE) (2019-2021)
• Countering Islamophobia through the Development of Best Practice in the use of Counter-Narratives in EU Member States (2017-2018)
• Countering new forms of Roma child trafficking: Participatory approach (CONFRONT) (2013-2015)
• EU FP7 Research project: ACCEPT Pluralism, Tolerance, Pluralism, and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe (2011-2013)
• Roma migration to and from Canada – experiences of Hungarian, Slovak and Czech Roma returnees from Canada. (2012)
• Faces and Causes of Marginalization of the Roma in Local Settings. Contextual inquiry to the UNDP/FRA 2011 survey in CEE and SEE (2013)
• Patterns of social exclusion: The mechanisms of the reproduction of Roma and/or poor social positions in the socialist and post-socialist systems in Hungary, Individual research, Bolyai research grant (2012-2015)
• Report on Health Status of the Roma Population in the EU and the Monitoring of the Data Collection in the Area of Roma Health in Member States, Hungarian country expert EC EAHC (Executive Agency for Health and Consumers) (2013)
• The effects of reducing the social allowance in rural Hungary in 2012. Pro-Cserehát, CEE Trust (2013)
• Social and ethnic boundaries in local societies. Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (2013-2015)
• EU FP7 Research project: Identities and Modernities in Europe (IME). (2008-2012)
• “Outside and inside – border, locality and ethnicity in marginalized regions” project (2009-2011)
• EU FP7 EDUMIGROM (Ethnic differences in education and diverging prospects for urban youth in an enlarged Europe. A comparative investigation in ethnically diverse communities with secondgeneration migrants and Roma) http://www.edumigrom.eu/ishas (2009-2011)
• FRA pilot media research project: part of the Hungarian research team as well as the coordinating team http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/attachments/FRA-2011-Media-pilot-project_EN.pdf (2008-2009)