Introduction: Charting a Crisis

Schmiedel, Ulrich; Smith, Graeme

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“…In addition to the administrative, logistical, and ethical challenges that receiving countries like Hungary faced during the 2015 refugee crisis, the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa in Europe prompted new questions about European identity (Ammaturo 2019). Subsequent analyses focus on its implications for nationalism and national identities (Schenk 2021), for religious identity and the politics of religion (Schmiedel and Smith 2018;Peker 2022), and through a lens of racialization (Rexhepi 2018;Burrell and Hörschelmann 2019).…”

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The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis and the Politics of Public Opinion: Evidence from Hungary

Pepinsky,

Reiff,

Szabó

2024

Perspect. polit.

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The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine was a watershed moment in European politics. The invasion prompted a massive influx of refugees into Central Europe, a region in which immigration has proven highly contentious and politically salient in recent decades. We study public opinion toward refugees in Hungary, a highly exclusionary political environment in which anti-migrant and anti-refugee sentiments are commonly invoked by the ruling government. Combining historical public opinion data from the past decade with two rounds of original survey data from 2022, we demonstrate that the Ukrainian refugee crisis was accompanied by a large increase in tolerance for refugees, reversing what had previously been one of the most anti-refugee public opinion environments in Europe. To explain this reversal, we use a series of survey experiments coupled with detailed settlement-level demographic data to investigate how conflict proximity and racial, religious, and national identity shape openness to refugees. We find that the distinguishing feature of the 2022 refugee crisis was that refugees were mostly white European Christians driven from their home country by conflict. We discuss the implications of our argument for Hungary, for European politics in times of crisis, and for the politics of public opinion in competitive authoritarian regimes.

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Section: Refugee Crises and European Politicsmentioning

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The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis and the Politics of Public Opinion: Evidence from Hungary

Pepinsky,

Reiff,

Szabó

2024

Perspect. polit.

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“…27 This kind of discourse belongs to 'civil and not-so-civil theologies [that] have taken over the public square … and are always already operant in the controversies stirred up by immigration into Europe'. 28 Admittedly, such theologies operate independently from established religious institutions and practices; 29 that is, they do not necessarily reflect the position of mainstream religion and theological thought. But they do gain ground within the society, and that because such ground is available.…”

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Christianity and the Refugee Crisis

Măcelaru

2018

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission St

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This introductory article serves two specific purposes. First, it orients the reader to the complex topic addressed in this special issue-the problem of human displacement in general, and more specifically the current global refugee crisis. Second, it speaks in support of addressing human displacement from a theological perspective. The special issue hereby introduced is the result of two theological conferences that have addressed precisely such concerns-the 2016 and 2017 Stott-Bediako fora, under the title The Refugee Crisis: A Shared Human Condition.

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“…In addition, phenomena such as the migration ‘crisis’ (e.g. see Schmiedel and Smith, 2018) and the increasing threat of terrorism (Bayrakli and Hafez, 2017) create an atmosphere in which Islamophobia prospers. Such a context is a fertile breeding ground for discrimination and hate speech on the basis of culture, religion and language in every layer of society.…”

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Procedural justice perceptions in the mediation of discrimination reports by a national equality body

Graaf

2020

International Journal of Discrimination and the Law

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National equality bodies (NEBs) must provide independent assistance to victims of discrimination in complaints about discrimination. As the EU Directive 2000/43/EC only introduced a minimum programme, there is great variety in design at the national level. In this article, the focus lies on the out-of-court approach of the Belgian NEB (Unia) which is founded on dialogue with the involved parties. Based on semi-directive interviews with 18 persons who reported discrimination and hate speech, the factors that contribute to their satisfaction with the assistance procedure of the NEB are explored. This satisfaction is approached from a socio-psychological perspective based on the relational model of procedural justice which implies that people care about a fair procedure because of the message it conveys to them about their relationship with the entity enacting the procedure. As established in prior research on informal dispute resolution, it was found that the quality of their interaction with the staff members at the NEB played a great role in the assessment of the procedure.

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Introduction: Charting a Crisis

Cited by 7 publications

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The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis and the Politics of Public Opinion: Evidence from Hungary

The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis and the Politics of Public Opinion: Evidence from Hungary

Christianity and the Refugee Crisis

Procedural justice perceptions in the mediation of discrimination reports by a national equality body

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