Solving migration or violating democracy?
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2020-06-16
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en
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This thesis explores the relation between the securitization of immigration and the implementation of illiberal policy in Hungary. The assumption that is being tested is that the Hungarian governments uses narratives that securitize immigration to legitimate illiberal measures. The methodology of this research exists of two complementary approaches: the indirect analysis and the direct analysis. The indirect analysis provides a broad overview of the securitization and illiberalism that have occurred in Hungary over the past ten years. This accounts for the context of the case. The direct analysis fixates on three specific policies and the way that they were legitimized. This provides the direct link necessary to answer the research question. The analysis finds that the securitization of immigration has played a role in the legitimization of illiberal measures. However, both the implementation of illiberal measures, as well as the securitization of immigration are often more subtle than theorized. Therefore, it is also not possible to observe the process of legitimation as straightforward as initially assumed. In the end, the research does provide meaningful contributions to the theoretical discussions about all three of the concepts that are at the centre of it.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen