The role of ethnicity and social capital in immigration to Hungary

The paper examining a particular segment of Hungarian immigration - which, at the same time, most powerfully determines the overall trend of immigration - explores the presence and role of migrants' personal ties and the resources available through these. The aim of the paper is to present the immigration process to Hungary from neighbouring countries utilising a network perspective and to reveal the role of social capital during migration in a case when most of the immigrants are of the same ethnicity as the receiving population, and thus - contrary to other immigrant groups - ethnic capital... Mehr ...