Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Yönetim ve Ekonomi: Celal Bayar Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, cilt.24, sa.3, ss.857-876, 2017 (Hakemli Dergi)
Since the Syrian crisis, migration has emerged as a rising and permanent discussion of
European politics that has both created diversity and caused obstacles in the attitudes and policy
orientations across the member states. In addition, the migrant crisis opened a space for Eurosceptic
actors to exploit it as an issue for politicization and securitization. Eurosceptic discourse has framed
the migrant crisis as a threat to national, economic, cultural and internal security, bringing its
securitization aspect into question. In this respect, new security measures, such as border controls
and detention, and a discourse that employs anti-migration themes have become visible in many
member states. The focus of this study is to analyse Hungary’s overall position and policy orientations
towards the crisis in order to deconstruct its main messages, identify the interlocutors and the reasons
behind particular perspectives. In this descriptive content analysis, more than 160 official documents
have been thoroughly examined. It was observed that in opposition to the European migration
governance, Hungary has gone through a securitizing discourse as the first theme. The second theme
is that due to Brussels’ policy preferences, which are characterized to be anti-democratic and
unlawful, and believed to have created a civilization disaster, Budapest has exhibited a Eurosceptic
stance. Hungary’s overall position and policy orientations towards the migrant crisis are concluded
to be the combination of securitization and Euroscepticism. Accordingly in the last theme, Hungary’s
proposed solution to the migrant crisis, which was framed as a threat, is ‘stopping’ it by initiating
new security measures.