CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Zelenyanszky, Edina Allegra |
|---|---|
| Title | Come, Work, Leave - Labour Conditions Inflicted Upon Filippino Migrant Workers In Hungary, At The Semi-Periphery Of Europe |
| Summary | The growing presence of guest workers has been intensifying in Hungarian public discourse in the past years, partially as a response to the sharp contrast with the anti-migrant rhetoric of the Orbán-government characteristic of the past ten years. While it is clear, that the labour shortage the country began facing around 2015 was not amendable via the import of labourers from the neighbouring region, why the choice has fallen upon the Philippines to remain a recognised guest-worker country is likely to be explained with ‘cultural’ similarities that bridge and conceal economic needs. Reacting to the Hungarian government’s selective process of labour-migrant import, this thesis gathers and analyses information on the institutional responsibilities of state, meso- and state-level actors facilitating the import of Filippino guest work; it analyses via semi-structured interviews the work conditions characteristic of present and previous employments from the perspective of precarity, studies the discourses and narratives used by workers when conceptualising themselves and deservingness within the matrix of meso-level and state actors. The implications of the interviews suggest that the uncertain and instable life Filipino migrant workers face here is not necessarily helped by meso-level institutional actors, and essentialising culturalist images take part in their exploitation. |
| Supervisor | Feischmidt, Margit |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/zelenyanszky_edina.pdf |
Visit the CEU Library.
© 2007-2021, Central European University