ABSTRACT
Hungary is a country on the front line of the Schengen Area that made the country attractive for asylum seekers, irregular foreigners and other migrants. Although empirical experiences substantiated target and transit migration, the policy approach was referring persistently to the transit character of the country with the purpose to prove that Hungary was not an attractive country for migrants. According to the research findings, the limited extent of Asian migration reflected the migration policy, which has been unwelcoming towards most third-country nationals and has emphasised temporary patterns of transnational migration. There has been general agreement among policy-makers that the political climate was inappropriate to follow the economic and social rationality of a supportive and proactive migration policy. As a consequence, the development impacts of temporary migration have been curbed, fractional and hampered.
