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Malguti, Beatrice (2019)

Securitization of Migration in Hungary: the Soros Plan

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

This master thesis discusses the securitization of the issue migration in Hungary. I argue that in 2017 the securitization discourse surrounding migration changed and the issue was reframed as a threat to the political security sector rather than a social and economic one. It focuses especially on the Soros plan and on the way the Hungarian government exploited this narrative to justify the country illiberal turn by creating a bridge that connected it to the issue of migration and how in turn this affected the protection of liberal freedom and rights in the country of Hungarian citizens and not citizens alike.

Soros

Hungary

Migration

Orban

Author

Malguti, Beatrice

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Global Conflict in the Modern Era

Supervisors

Valk, John-Harmen

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en