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59 Hung. J. Legal Stud. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/ajur59 and id is 1 raw text is: 2498-5473/USD 20.00 HUNGARIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 59, No 1, pp. 1-18 (2018) C 2018Akademiai Kiad6, Budapest DOI 10.1556/2052.2018.59.1.1 Being in a New Community Possibilities for Refugees to Become Actors of the Political Community in Hungary and the United Kingdom ATTILA SZABO* Abstract. The paper compares the possibilities of refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection toward their political integration in two countries, Hungary and the United Kingdom. The aim of this comparison is not judge which country is better in this sense but to present and explain a few relevant dimensions of the political integration of refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection The scrutinized dimensions are the fundamental right of being recognized as a refugee; the right to stay, including legal residency, social support, education, right for employment and right to vote; the right to the free movement furthermore direct political rights as the right to vote; the freedom of expression the freedom of association and the freedom of assembly and finally possibilities for preferential naturalization Obviously, there is no possibility to analyse and evaluate the whole integration process but at least, its legal dimensions are presented in the paper. In the conclusion, the author will make a few suggestions what should be considered when thinking about these questions. Keywords: refugees, asylum, integration, political community 1. INTRODUCTION This paper investigates a field which is not deeply researched among the topics of political communities. It is very much on the agenda to ponder over the situation of refugees from this viewpoint. There is a huge humanitarian movement from the unstable regions of the world to the European Union (EU). Hungary and the United Kingdom take their shares of the international protection in different extents and ways. It has been debated many times from different viewpoints of human rights but this study would like to enlighten the situation of the people concerned from a lesser debated angle. The general frame of the international protection and the integration connected must be overviewed in order to approach the contour of the political community. There were 206,565 first-time asylum applicants in 2015 and 2016 combined in Hungary. In the United Kingdom 78,945 asylum applicants were registered in the same period combined.2 These numbers indicate the seriousness of the political, legal and philosophical challenge. However the recognition rates of the asylum-seekers tinge the picture. 925 statuses were * Meneddk Hungarian Association for Migrants - Pazmany Pdter Catholic University. E-mail: szattila85@gmail.com. This manuscript was finished in August 2017 and thus this study is not able and does not wish to react on the most recent asylum policy issues in Hungary. The author would like to thank Boldizsar Nagy and Andras Kovats for their support and suggestions. The authors are, of course, responsible for all mistakes and inaccuracies which have remained in the text. 1 Based on EUROSTAT data. EUROSTAT (2017) link 1. 2 Based on EUROSTAT data. EUROSTAT (2017) link 2.

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