eprintid: 10152635 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/15/26/35 datestamp: 2022-07-26 13:00:20 lastmod: 2022-07-26 13:00:20 status_changed: 2022-07-26 13:00:20 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Kovács, Eszter Krasznai creators_name: Ramakrishnan, Kavita creators_name: Thieme, Tatiana title: Provincializing European responses to the refugee ‘crisis’ through a Hungarian lens ispublished: pub divisions: C03 divisions: F26 divisions: B03 divisions: UCL note: © 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/) abstract: 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. date: 2022-10 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier BV official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102708 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1966665 doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102708 lyricists_name: Kovacs, Eszter lyricists_id: EKOVA54 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Political Geography volume: 98 article_number: 102708 issn: 0962-6298 citation: Kovács, Eszter Krasznai; Ramakrishnan, Kavita; Thieme, Tatiana; (2022) Provincializing European responses to the refugee ‘crisis’ through a Hungarian lens. Political Geography , 98 , Article 102708. 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102708 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102708>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152635/1/1-s2.0-S0962629822001226-main.pdf