The current dynamics of international migration in Europe: problems and perspectives
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15290/eejtr.2018.02.02.02Keywords:
refugee crisis, EU migration policy, Europe, migration, Visegrad countriesAbstract
The long-brewing Civil War in Syria that catastrophically erupted to engender the mass movement of refugees in 2015, created a long trail of migrants from Turkey to Greece and then on to Germany, which afterward, involved new routes of flow through Northern Russia to Sweden as well. The EU faces a clashing situation in which its legal duties and the human rights values it incarnates call for openness and tolerance on the one hand, while European citizens insist on greater migration precincts and anti-migration feelings on the other. The lasting armed conflicts in the Middle East but particularly in Syria, which caused migrants and refugees to head North en masse, brought radical changes to the minds of Europeans regarding the meaning of “migration”. Nowadays, compared to previous years as in the 1990s, the term “migration” now translates to terrorism, chaos, cultural-counter revolution and Islamophobia, rather than economic development, remittances, exchange of ideas, and diversity in Europe.
Downloads
References
Blum R. (2018, July 16). France World Cup victory an immigration success story. The Times of Israel. Retrieved from https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-world-cup-victory-an-immigration-success-story/.
Buckley N. (2016, October 2). Czech president calls for economic migrants to be deported. The Financial Times. Retrieved from https://www.ft.com/content/8bae2ec6-8725-11e6-bbbe-2a4dcea95797.
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, July 28, 1951, 189 U.N.T.S. 137.
Edwards A. (2018, June 19). Forced displacement at record 68.5 million, UNHCR. The UN Refugee Agency. Retrieved from https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2018/6/5b222c494/forced-displacement-record-685-million.html.
European Commission (2015a, September 9). Refugee Crisis: European Commission takes decisive action. Retrieved from http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-5596_en.htm.
European Commission (2018, 14 November). Valletta priorities: EU and Africa partnership helps migrants and refugees. Retrieved from https://ec.europa.eu/trustfundforafrica/all-news-and-stories/valletta-priorities-eu-and-africa-partnership-helps-migrants-and-refugees_en.
European Commission, Directorate-General for Communication (2015b). Standard Eurobarometer 83 “Public opinion in the European Union”. Retrieved from http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb/eb83/eb83_first_en.pdf.
European Commission, Directorate-General for Communication (2016). Special Eurobarometer 451 “Future of Europe”. doi:10.2775/448365.
European Commission, Directorate-General for Communication (2018). Special Eurobarometer 469 “Integration of immigrants in the European Union”. doi:10.2837/918822.
European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Nov. 4, 1950, E.T.S. No. 1.
Garces-Mascarenas B. (2015). Why Dublin "Doesn't Work". notes internacionals CIDOB, 135, 1-5. Retrieved from https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/notes_internacionals/n1_135_por_que_dublin_no_funciona/why_dublin_doesn_t_work.
If France wins the World Cup what does the country really stand to gain? (2018, July 12), The Local. Retrieved from https://www.thelocal.fr/20180712/what-will-france-gain-if-it-wins-the-world-cup.
Muggah R. & Hill K. (2018, 27 June). African cities will double in population by 2050. Here are 4 ways to make sure they thrive. World Economic Forum. Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/Africa-urbanization-cities-double-population-2050-4%20ways-thrive/.
TOI staff & AFP (2015, September 8). Growing number of EU states say they prefer non-Muslim refugees. The Times of Israel. Retrieved from http://www.timesofisrael.com/eu-states-increasingly-say-they-prefer-non-muslim-refugees/?fb_comment_id=873747929376245_960080504076320.
Wasik Z. & Foy H. (2015, August 21). Poland favours Christian refugees from Syria. The Financial Times. Retrieved from https://www.ft.com/content/6edfdd30-472a-11e5-b3b2-1672f710807b.
Wiggins B. (2018, July 14). Where are they now? The star-studded 1998 World Cup Winning France Team. Business Insider. Retrieved from https://www.businessinsider.com/1998-world-cup-france-team-2018-7?IR=T.
Zgut E. (2017, November 29). “Visegrád Divided. Emerging-Europe”. Retrieved from http://emerging-europe.com/voices/visegrad-divided/.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2018 Nargiz Hajiyeva
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
1. The Author declares that he or she has created the written work and holds exclusive and unlimited copyright /both moral and property rights/ and guarantees that no third parties have rights to the work.
2. In the view of the Copyright and Related Rights Act, a work must fulfill the following criterion:
a) be a manifestation of creative work,
b) have an individual character („author’s personal stamp”),
c) have a set form.
3. The Author declares that the text has not been previously published (under the same or different title, or as a part of another publication).
4. The Author allows (grants a non-exclusive license) the publishing house of University of Białystok to use the scholarly text to:
- preserve and multiply by means of any technique; save in a digital form with no limitations as to the manner and form of digital preservation;
- upload online with no limitations as to the place and time of access.
5. The Author grants consent for editorial changes made in the work.
6. The Author grants the University of Białystok rights free of charge for the duration of property copyright with no territory limits. The University has the right to grant sublicenses in the acquired rights.
7. Granting a non-exclusive license allows the Author to preserve their rights and allows other parties to make use of the work according to sublicensing agreement with provisions identical as those of Attribution 4.0 Internacional License (CC BY 4.0), available online at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. License to all its content published from 2023 and CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 to all its content published from 2017 to 2022.
8. The Agreement has been concluded for an indefinite period of time.
9. Because of costs born in preparation of the work for publishing, the Parties oblige themselves to act in good faith and refrain from declining to grant licenses.
10. To all matters not settled herein, provisions of the Civil Code and Copyright and Related Rights Act of 1994, February 4 shall apply.
11. All disputes shall be resolved by a court of local jurisdiction for the place of seat of University of Białystok.