2.11 - Are Migrants Permanently Ruining Budapest?

Question 1

Hungarary

Answer 1

Previously part of Austria
Punished, land was given to Romania
Capital: Budapest with transport into countries
PArt of USSR until 2004 and jointed EU
2018, becomes a democracy

Question 2

Keleti Protests

Answer 2

European migrant crisis since it joined EU
Refugees from Syria & Afghanisatan to Hungrary
2015 - Keleti international train terminal was closed to prevent migration throughout EUrope

Question 3

Long-Term Context

Answer 3

Hungrary has long been invaded - Tatars, Ottomans, Nazis, Russians, causing 2 thirds of its by the end of WW1.
Medium Term - Europe’s identity Crisis - Declared Europe should take 1 million asylum seekers from Syria

Question 4

Keleti

Answer 4

Kaleit, a major Budapest train station becomes a Syrian refugee camp. Whilst surveys show 60% of migrants would be resentful to foreign immigrants.
The government have legitimised hate towards all minorities. Most Syrian migrants have moved on to Europe but 40,000 stayed to study at university.

Question 5

Beef With Locals & Syrians

Answer 5

Building a mega mosque in Budapest would change the built environment
Syrian refugees that are studying would benefit
Hungarians feel hositle as they see the introduction of Islam and other languages as a threat to their cultures
Therefore, Syrians act hostile towrads refugees

Question 6

Can Nationalism Sustain Itself

Answer 6

The EU threatened to stop Hungarary of its voting rights if it doesn’t stop victimising Muslim refugees.