TY - JOUR VL - 98 N1 - © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) JF - Political Geography PB - Elsevier BV A1 - Kovács, Eszter Krasznai A1 - Ramakrishnan, Kavita A1 - Thieme, Tatiana AV - public Y1 - 2022/10// SN - 0962-6298 TI - Provincializing European responses to the refugee ?crisis? through a Hungarian lens UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102708 ID - discovery10152635 N2 - This paper engages with state, citizen, and civil society responses to refugees in Budapest and Hungary more widely in order to ?provincialise? European migration policy and politics. We introduce grounded, eastern ?frontline? realities and histories to complicate European claims to universality and hierarchies of ?goodness?. Through ethnographic work that documents and analyses refugee reception after the so-called 2015 refugee crisis, we shed light on the diverse forms of existing crises affecting the EU. These conflicts involve contestations over i) who is deemed European (questions that have been asked both of migrants and East Europeans), and ii) the ?Europeanisation? project as it has entailed new governance and funding arrangements for the development of civil society organisations. These new governance modes have attempted to re-shape city-state-EU dynamics, purposefully eliding problematic nation-state responses to refugees. These have heightened opposition to EU power-creep from conservative governments. Through an empirically rich discussion of the Hungarian context in relation to Europe, this paper speaks to the broader spectrum of grounded and politicised populist responses that have challenged the EU's governance and future. ER -