The effects of Hungarian Defence Forces (HDF) border security deployment on the civilian population’s subjective sense of security

Abstract

Communities that are directly affected by the migration crisis perceive and evaluate events differently than others who live farther off, and just have got information about the events from different news channels. The civilian population’s attitudes toward the military or security forces are key factor in maintaining conflict-free or in minimizing conflict situation in times of various crises. Civilians living in an operation area are directly affected by the operations with the events often taking place on their own property. It follows from that the civilians in the operation area relate differently to migration and migrants, and border protecting troopers and policemen too, than others who live far off. In this research we have focused to regional level, because the national researches that try to examine the irregular migration mostly on a national representative sample, so these have limited ability to provide reliable information on smaller territorial units. Otherwise this study is analysing how the attitudes changed in these smaller territorial units or societies which was affected by the migratory crisis directly. A further aim of this analysis is to show those possible explanations and interpretations which are lying behind the quantitative data. This study aims to show the attitudes to migration among the civilian population and the changes in their subjective sense of security, based on empirical data, along the Southern border in Hungary.

NGOs for Global Security (The Human Security and Health Security Role of the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta in the International Field)

“…Because of its Asian origins and particular linguistic characteristics, and despite the Hungarian statehood being part of Christian Europe for a thousand years, it has not been without difficulties establishing and maintaining its security on the European continent. Hungary is located in an area of Europe that has always been known throughout history as a buffer zone or staging ground for the movement of people (Rácz, 2018a). It has been at the crossroads of the great empires of history, where we can mention the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire and later the Soviet interests.…”