Veronika Kaszás is a historian and expert in international relations. She earned her PhD in 2013 in Modern and Contemporary History at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, after having studied history and social sciences in Hungary, France, Sweden and Switzerland. She has also gained professional experience in European bilateral diplomacy and cultural diplomacy.
In her studies and research she focused on the development of the migration and asylum policy of European countries in the last decades. She wrote several articles and a book on the internal and external circumstances of Hungary joining the 1951 Geneva Convention in 1989 to settle the sensitive issue of Romanian refugees arriving in Hungary in increasing number between 1987-89.
Veronika joined the “Unlikely Refugee” team in August 2024 to continue her research on the development of the Hungarian refugee policy at the end of the Cold War period. She examines how the country in political transformation set up the legal and institutional framework for migration and asylum in a changing international environment, which then faced new challenges during the Yugoslav wars.
Contact: kaszas@mua.cas.cz