Alex Ilián Kovács

Alex Ilián Kovács is a former student of the School of Social Sciences and History at Mathias Corvinus Collegium and currently an intern at the Migration Research Institute within MCC’s Postgraduate Program. He is pursuing a degree in Political Science at the University of Pécs and is a member of the Kosztolányi Dezső College for Advanced Studies. His main fields of interest are the politics of the Spanish-speaking world, in particular minority politics in Spain and the social transformations of Latin America. He has pursued studies abroad in France at the Angers campus of the Université catholique de l’Ouest, as well as in Spain, where he attended the summer school on Spanish and Catalan politics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He spent one semester in Peru at the Faculty of International Studies of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, where he researched the “Fujimori glass ceiling.” In parallel with his studies in Peru, he worked for three months as an intern at the Embassy of Hungary in Lima under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He completed his professional internship at the International Project Office of the Hétfa Research Institute.

His current research project examines the intersection of migration and politics under the title: “Migration as a Political Tool? The Impact of the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis on Elections and Party Politics in Peru.”