Date: 19 november 2025, 09:00 

Location: ELTE TK Human Tudományok Háza, Tóth Kálmán u. 4., room K.0.11–12. 

Language of the venet: English 

In the past decade, the Hungarian government has pro-actively facilitated immigration while discursively thematising it in a negative fashion, both of which represents a break with the past. This shift coincided with a gradual shift in both European and global migration patterns. First, westward labour migration from the “new,” Eastern member states of the European Union caused labour shortages attracting migration from farther east to fill available jobs, causing a “migration transition.” Second, Eastern Europe slowly emerged as a destination of Western European lifestyle (particularly retirement) migration. On a global scale, beyond continuing economic migration and flight from poorer countries, an increasingly salient phenomenon is the rise of middle-class lifestyle migration. As a result of this trend, the semiperipheries of Europe and Asia are increasingly emerging as destinations of both labour and lifestyle migration. An exploration of the changing migration scene in Hungary will help us understand these broader processes. This informal workshop aims both to take stock of the diversity of the new immigration to Hungary and to restart regular exchanges among scholars active in this field.  

The full program can be found here. 

The workshop is open to all interested. Online participation is possible.