Swiss reception of Hungarian refugees (1956 to 1959)

The Swiss reception of Hungarian refugees refers to Switzerland's humanitarian and political response to the tens of thousands of refugees who fled Communist Hungary after the Soviet suppression of the 1956 Revolution there. At approximately 12,000 individuals, Switzerland admitted one of the highest numbers of refugees per capita among Western states and instituted emergency procedures, such as transport, temporary camps and rapid private placement, that would later shape its modern asylum system.

Some historians place Switzerland's liberal refugee policy regarding fleeing Hungarians in a larger context of being particularly open to those fleeing Communist systems during the Cold War as opposed to those fleeing fascism and antisemitism in World War II: After Hungary, the Swiss government would again show openness to Czechoslovaks fleeing the Soviet repression of the Prague Spring and Tibetans fleeing China.