dispersion
The concept of dispersion has no uniform definition. In the interpretation of Hungarian kin-state policy, dispersion is any local minority or community organised on ethnic, national or religious grounds, which is or has become a minority and which is gradually losing its block-like nature as a result of assimilation. A dispersion situation is mainly driven by the processes of assimilation and migration. In sociological terms dispersion is any community that is unable to ensure its ethnic reproduction, and those communities which traditionally live as or have become a numerical minority of less than 10 or 20% in their localities. Hungarians living in indigenous communities beyond the border, 60% live in settlements where Hungarians are the majority, 20% live in settlements where the proportion of ethnic Hungarians is between 20-50%, and 20% live in settlements where the Hungarian population is less than one-fifth of the population. In 2011 the latter rate was 7.1% in Slovenia, 11.5% in Slovakia, 17% in Transcarpathia / Subcarpathia (Ukraine), 20.1% in Transylvania (Romania), 23% in Vojvodina (Serbia), 60.3% in Croatia and 80.2% in Burgenland (Austria). According to the social environment, we can distinguish between rural and urban dispersion, people living in dispersion (who do not participate in Hungarian events/occasions), and dispersion communities (less than 10% of the population, more than 100 people, with community occasions). Nowadays, among Hungarians living beyond the border living in dispersion and turning into a dispersion community is mostly a phenomenon in big cities.