Information and Fears around Decision Making International Migration from Hungary

Abstract: Social distances are shortening in contemporary European Union by easier and cheaper travelling, increasing language skills and as a consequence, migration rates are growing. On the other hand, despite the spreading of virtual communities, participation and activity in these communities has become more and more common in our everyday life but civic publicity is still not a part of the discourse thus it cannot have any influence on migration related decisions. Moreover, virtual communities cannot give real integrity in every aspect. We researched migration outflows from Hungary with university communities to find out whether a personal connection or a stronger cohesion could result a shift in influential mechanism of information on human attitudes. Chain migration is motivated by many reasons and in our viewpoint gathering more information about possibilities and other circumstances of migration is not enough to extend the limits on emotional level. These fears would mean the limitation of migration potential and the possibility of further growth in the future.Keywords: virtual communities, network migration, international migration, chain migration, community valuesCivic Publicity, Virtual Communities and Socio-Geographical DistanceModernization was often described as-or at least partly defined by-the shortening geographical distances in real or virtual societies. The development of the transportation system, for example, made it easier to work in a foreign city, thus labor markets has changed rapidly as a consequence. The phenomenon of growing temporary migration caused increasing economic output. (Blanchflower et al 2007, Dickinson 2008, Dustman et al 2010) More open and permeable labor markets cause increasing information flows naturally. It is enough to have a look at the immigration rates in the US in the past. Every greater inflow had a strengthening feedback on the source countries' societies through information channels and increased migration outflows from there: Hungarian peasants, for example, began to immigrate to the US at the end of the 19th century and became mostly miners. As soon as they got a job overseas they wrote letters to their family members and friends at home about chances to follow them. This was a common situation that we can describe as general migration patterns. (Boyd 1989, Tilly 1990, Puskas 2000, Poros 2001) The growing number of Mexican immigrants since the 60's roots in the antecedents known as the Bracero Program from the 1940's. (Snodgrass 2011) Similarly, the most contemporary process: South Korean immigrants in the United States between 1970 and 2007: the number increased from 38711 to 1 million, making them the seventh largest immigrant group in the United States after Mexican, Filipino, Indian, Chinese, Salvadoran and Vietnamese foreigners. (Terrazas 2009) Chain migration is a common phenomenon in sociology (MacDonald-MacDonald 1964, Massey et. al. 2002), Even policymakers reacted to it and accepted a part of it recently as a major way in the US and in some European countries: namely the family reunification (Tichenor 2002); but the escalation in migration volumes by these effects are usually part of a macro-economic analysis.Information circulation is a tool of migration: reachable purposes, useful connections and skills. On the other hand-to change living place especially when it is about homeland-it is not merely a rational choice. Aptitudes, intentions and attitudes contain fears, awkwardness and many other emotions can influence these decisions. Understanding such social processes we need to consider both the information exchange and the situation of the values and the emotions of a society and the interaction among them.The question is whether the refusal or the lack of traditional integration forms strengthen the connection within the ethnic groups or lingual, native soil connections. The lack of information flow connected to official institutional possibilities does not mean that current situation remains unutilized in every aspect. …