African Refugees in the European Union and in Hungary

Abstract

The current refugee crisis plays an important role in the migration trends of the European Union. The majority of the more than 2.4 million asylum seekers who reached the region in the last two years came from Asia but the number of those coming from African countries also significantly increased after the notable migration of the previous years. This is why this topic should also be researched. The article’s aim is to reveal and analyse the EU and Hungarian refugee statistics after briefly dealing with the African continent’s ongoing migration trends. After this, it provides a short review of the main refugee sending African countries (Somalia, Nigeria and Eritrea) from a social and political point of view with a special attention to the migration of refugees.