ABSTRACT
In 1989, the Soviet Union bordered Hungary from the East and Yugoslavia from the South. Hungarian demographers recently began to include international migration in population forecasts. Peter Toth and Laszlo Hablicsek claim statistically detectable foreign population in Hungary to have been around 131 thousand in the beginning of 1994. In the last quarter of the 19th century, the largest wave of Chinese emigration to that date took place from the southeastern coastal provinces of the country. Since 1987, the central and municipal governments have undertaken measures to control the rural-urban migration flow. Migrants from the People's Republic of China (PRC) were joined by a far smaller but influential group of Chinese businessmen from Western Europe, America, and Southeast Asia. Every Chinese province except Tibet is represented in Hungary, along with the non-Han ethnic groups. The migrants came overwhelmingly from the urban and coastal zones of the People's Republic of China where they had tasted the new consumption culture.
