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Chinese in Hungary
Pap Fruzsina2015.
University of Miskolc
Basic Facts/Statistics
• Estimately 20,000 Chinese in Hungary
• 2007: 6,800
• Fewer than 100 got the Hungarian citizenship
• Colonization started in 1989 (collapse of Communist system)
• Aim: opening stores (clothes, restaurants), getting a job as a migrant worker
• Live mainly in Budapest, can be found in the whole country
• Came from Beijing, Zhejiang, Fujian.
• 1990: 11,621
• 1991: 27,330
• 1992: 10,128 (visa requirements restored)
Budapest and PestOther cities
Regional distribution
Work
• Most of the stores are family enterprises (home: production of goods, abroad: selling)
• 1992: 1400 registered company
• 2002: 10,000 Chinese company in Hungary
• Today: enterprises are decreasing, but capital investment is increasing (multinational companies)
Occupational distribution
- Trading, catering- Simple host/catering
- Technial, scientific- Other
Discrimination
• General discrimination
• Not racism, but an antipathy
• In the beginning they were welcomed by the society experts say it is due to the media (´flood of refugees´) and politicians (misbelief)
• They can’t protect themselves no real labor organisation, help only from the embassy
• Annoying but they can live with it Hungary is a place where they can earn money, making a living!
Language Barriers
• It is a bigger problem: only some of them speaks Hungarian, not many speaks English (and not many Hungarian speaks English)
• It is not important to learn the language or to get Hungarian citizenship Hungary is a ´stop´, not sure whether it is the ´final station/stop´
• Another problem: cultural differences not easy to get used to
After settling down
• No Chinatown as in the U.S. no compulsory actions as overseas
• There are many typical districts where many of them live
• 2004: Magyar – Kínai Két Tanítási Nyelvű Általános Iskola
• 2008: survey Hungarians are the most negative towards immigrants misbelief that ´Chinese are everywhere´
Learning the languageConfucius Institutes in Hungary
Sources
• http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarorsz%C3%A1gi_k%C3%ADnaiak
• http://index.hu/kultur/eletmod/mancs706/
• http://kitekinto.hu/eia/2011/03/12/egy_kulonleges_migracios_strategia_a_kinaiak_magyarorszagon/2/#.VU-1jCHtmko
Thank you for your attention!谢谢大家 !
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