Home Across the Border: Subcarpathian Hungarian immigration to Kisvárda
Home Across the Border: Subcarpathian Hungarian immigration to Kisvárda

Summary/Abstract: Hungarians form a significant minority in the Subcarpathia region of far western Ukraine. In recent decades, many Subcarpathian Hungarians have immigrated to Hungary. This paper explores the phenomenon of Subcarpathian Hungarian immigration to Kisvárda, Hungary – a small city near the border of Ukraine – and its surrounding villages from the fall of the Soviet Union to the present. It examines these immigrants’ motivations for leaving Subcarpathia and for choosing the Kisvárda region, the nature of their transition to life in Hungary, and their feelings about their own identity. It touches on the economic, cultural, and political factors impacting these immigrants, including the effects of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Hungarian government’s 2011 offer of citizenship to all ethnic Hungarians. It also considers the unique conditions of three distinct phases of immigration.

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