Introduction. Cultural migrants? The consequences of educational mobility and changing social class among first-in-family graduates in Hungary

The focus of the special issue of these papers is the investigation of the consequences of education-driven upward mobility of first-in-family graduates in Hungary. All papers except one draw on the findings of a 3-year research project that aimed to explore the int as 'first-generation intellectuals ersectional effect of class, race and gender on the outcome and the price of different mobility trajectories of first-generation intellectuals. 3 They address the question of whether there are significant differences regarding upward educational mobility trajectories and their consequences for academically high achieving Roma and non-Roma men and women. We call our study group academic high achievers or first-in-family graduates -none of whose parents have a degree and who are designated as 'first generation intellectuals' in Hungarian mobility studies (among others Ferenczi 2003, Mazsu 2012).