Small but Salient
The Securitization of Ukraine’s Ethnic Hungarian Minority
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Balogh (0000-0001-8220-3220, Eötvös Loránd University, corresponding author), Katalin Kovály (0000-0002-8554-6816, Geographical Institute) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 798-821 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/nps.2024.51 |
| OpenAlex | W4403948061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article analyzes the key factors behind the securitization of Ukraine’s small ethnic Hungarian minority in recent years and how they affect local interethnic as well as interstate relations. It draws on elite interviews conducted in the Ukrainian-Hungarian borderland, and other sources including speech acts. Four underlying factors were identified. The first two are Hungary’s kin-state aid and dual citizenship law, which have empowered Ukraine’s ethnic Hungarians, with the community appearing larger and potentially more threatening in the eyes of the majority population than its mere size justifies. The other two factors are Ukraine’s language policy and Transcarpathia’s future being subject of conspiracy theories in light of Russia’s invasion of eastern Ukraine, which have negatively affected interethnic ties, although somewhat less in the borderland than between Hungary and Ukraine at large. In Transcarpathia, our different informants had diverging perceptions of who is stirring tensions but agreed that actors from outside their region were to blame. Overall, what has emerged is a clash of Hungary’s kin-state politics and Ukraine’s nation-state-building efforts. The article ends with more general implications for kin- and host-state relations in times of conflict
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UNHCR – United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees
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National Minorities in an Era of Externalization
Kin-State Politics
Collective Narcissism and Hungary’s Kin-State Policy after 2010
Memory and Language
Nationalizing states revisited
Innumeracy About Minority Populations
Threats to Territorial Integrity, National Mass Schooling, and Linguistic Commonality
Too Many Immigrants? Examining Alternative Forms of Immigrant Population Innumeracy
Miscounting Race
Perceptions of Racial Group Size in a Minority-majority Area
The perception of ethnic diversity and anti-immigrant sentiments
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |