The Ruptures and Continuities in Hungary’s Reception Policy: The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

• Authors: Umut Korkut , Roland Fazekas

Abstracts

EN

This article reflects on the role that Hungary has played with respect to the Ukrainian refugee crisis. It elaborates on two issues. The first is Hungary’s relatively amicable relationship with Russia and how the Hungarian political elite has approached the Ukrainian crisis in view of its domestic political goals. The second is the migration policy that Hungary adopted when faced with the arrival of irregular Middle Eastern refugees and the mitigations in this policy to respond to the Ukrainian arrivals. The paper discusses the evolution in the governance of migration in Hungary and the actors and the politics underpinning the Hungarian reception policy from the perspective of these two issues. In this context, it draws on the literature on leadership and how the latter affects political contexts and social realities, particularly with respect to migration politics.

Keywords

EN

migration; refugee crisis; Russian aggression; Ukraine; reception policies; Hungary

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badań nad Migracjami Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Central and Eastern European Migration Review
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 13-29

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Umut Korkut

• Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom

• https://orcid.org/0000000301500632

author

Roland Fazekas

• Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom

• https://orcid.org/0000000316499443

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Identifiers

DOI

10.54667/ceemr.2023.10

Biblioteka Nauki

2233785