Romanian born population residing in Hungary, 2011-2017

Abstract

Foreign citizens began to immigrate to Hungary following its democratic transformation. Ethnicity had a decisive role during this period: people with Hungarian nationality arrived mostly. Later, following Hungary’s accession to the European Union, global trends had an impact on the Hungarian migration networks: Hungary’s migratory source extended, and it was able to attract foreign citizens from greater distances. Thus, two levels of international migration to Hungary are markedly separated: the impact of global migration and the movements from the countries of the Carpathian Basin to Hungary. Within Europe, the primary weight of neighbouring countries is linked to cross-border linguistic and culture relations. International migration to Hungary is characterised by small distances, and the majority of the immigrant population has Hungarian nationality or is native speaker of Hungarian. Most immigrants to Hungary are arriving from Romania, so the aim of the article is to analyse the social, economic and demographic characteristics of the migrants according to their areas of birth. between the have been one took between the Central Region. In the choice of the place in to the centre border regions also play an important role, which can partly be explained by the phenomenon of circular migration, and partly by the easier interaction with those family members who have remained