Az 1956-os menekültek társadalmi integrációja az Egyesült Államokban
The Social Integration of the Refugees of the 1956 Revolution in the USA

Summary/Abstract: According the latest U.S. census, around 1.5 million persons declare Hungarian or partial Hungarian identity based on at least one or more grandparents. A good portion of them had emigrated from Hungary as a consequence of 1956 revolution or they are descendants of ’56-ers. In my paper, based on extensive fieldwork in the U.S. among Hungarian Americans, I try to sketch up how the approximately 40 thousand young Hungarian students and industrial, blue and white collar workers who arrived to the States as political refugees, had been welcomed. The attitude toward the ’newcomers’ of earlier generations of Hungarian immigrants, who largely established the institutional network of Hungarian–American community life, is an issue to highlight. The analysis of various integration strategies of ’56-ers to local pre-existing communities and networks are also crucial to my research.

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