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Fearing Immigrants: “Don’t Let Soros Have the Last Laugh”

With the influx of immigrants around 2014, migration is increasingly becoming the focus of foreign and defense policies, making it one of the most salient and controversial political issues in Europe. In Hungary, anti-immigration rhetoric has evolved over the last few years, with the actual campaign targeted at the 87 year-old Hungarian-born American financier and philanthropist George Soros.

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Sculpting Identity: The stolen past of Hungarians

When a state consists of multiple ethnic groups, it is often difficult to appease everyone under the rule of a person or party representing a single identity. This is where identity politics, usually drenched in nationalism, often comes into play.