Hungary
Key Statistics
Data are 2024 UN data and may differ from national statistics agencies.
690000
Immigrant Population
7.1%
Immigrant Share of Total Population
539000
Emigrant Population
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Best Practices for Designing and Managing Labour Migration Corridors to Europe
Weak visa access, poor skills recognition, and thin worker-employer matching hobble five EU labour corridors, with targeted reforms key to unlocking shared gains.
Exploring Refugees’ Intentions to Return to Ukraine: Data insights and policy responses
Drawing on surveys of nearly 61,000 Ukrainians, this report finds that security, host-country support, and jobs shape Ukrainian refugees’ return plans.
European Immigrants in the United States
Once the leading source of immigrants to the United States, Europeans made up just 10 percent of U.S. immigrants in 2022. War in Ukraine pushed more Ukrainians to the United States.
The Winding Road to Marrakech: Lessons from the European Negotiations of the Global Compact for Migration
EU negotiations of the 2018 Global Compact for Migration exposed deep divisions. Compromise diluted ambition and left legal pathways largely nonbinding.
Borderless Europe: Seven Decades of Free Movement
Europe's free-movement regime faces its greatest stress test, with Brexit, COVID-19, and rising nationalism challenging an area of mobility spanning more than 460 million people.
Under Lockdown Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Europe Feels the Pinch from Slowed Intra-EU Labor Mobility
COVID-19 exposed the European Union’s reliance on mobile Eastern European workers—and the inequality that underpins intra-EU labor mobility.
Using Fear of the “Other,” Orbán Reshapes Migration Policy in a Hungary Built on Cultural Diversity
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán transformed a country with centuries of multicultural history into one that criminalizes asylum seeking.
Pushing Migration to the Forefront, Populists Make New Strides
Far-right populists claimed Brazil's presidency in 2018, collapsed Belgium's government, and pushed harder immigration policies across Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, and Sweden.
Pushback to the Resistance: Criminalization of Humanitarian Actors Aiding Migrants Rises
Hungary's "Stop Soros" law and prosecutions of volunteers in France and Arizona helping migrants marked a 2018 wave of criminal action against humanitarians.
Asylum Hangover? Governments Seek to Narrow Avenues for Humanitarian Protection
Facing public pressure, the United States and European Union moved in 2018 to narrow asylum grounds, shorten application deadlines, increase detention, and offshore protection.
