Theatrics of Xenophobia: Hungary and the 2015 Migration Crisis

Questions for our research • Wide variety of reactions throughout the EU: is migration a security threat? • Security frame used widely, but often interwoven with a humanitarian frame • Hungary as a “pure case” • Remarkable rise in xenophobic tendencies (Tarki) without first hand experience w/ migrants  what explains the Hungarian case? • Problem of causal arguments • Implications: possibilities of reversal, obstacles of a common EU position