The Origins of Diaspora Consciousness in the Hungarian American Experience
The Origins of Diaspora Consciousness in the Hungarian American Experience

Summary/Abstract: The major challenge now is to integrate the „kiszivárgók” („seepage Hungarians”) who have left Hungary since 1989. Kovalszki aptly designated them in this category, because of their gradual drain, or oozing dispersal throughout the world (i.e., seeping/oozing out of the 20th century wounds of the Hungarian nation). However, these „seepage Hungarians” now constitute an important part of the diaspora population. As László Hámos points out in his essay „Gyarapodó nemzetrész” (A Growing Community): According to the U.S. Census Bureau they have increased by 138,481 from 1,398,724 Hungarian ancestry inhabitants of the USA in 2000 to 1,537,205 in 2012.35 The diaspora activism of the Orbán government addresses this seepage crisis as well, and not one moment too soon!

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