Kicking Refugees was Just the Beginning: The European Refugee Crisis, How the Open Society Foundation used qualitative social media research in defence of human rights

Daniel Fazekas, Balazs Denes

This paper describes research by the Open Society Foundation (OSF), a global human rights organisation, into public opinion in Hungary during the refugee crisis of 2015, when the Hungarian government adopted a hard-line stance against refugees.

Kicking Refugees was Just the Beginning: The European Refugee Crisis, How the Open Society Foundation used qualitative social media research in defence of human rights

Daniel Fazekas, Balazs Denes

Introduction

Open Society Foundation (OSF), a global human rights organisation and its founder, George Soros, are actively engaged in shaping NGOs', governmental and international organizations' answer to the European refugee crisis towards an outcome in line with the organisation's values. The case discussed in this paper was a research project conducted in Hungary during the height of the refuge crisis in August-September 2015.

Hungary's role in the European refugee crisis was...

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