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EU Security vs. Security of Migrants: Serbia on the Balkan Migration Route
Mirjana Bobić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1185-3853
; Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu
Danica Šantić
; Geografski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu
Sažetak
The paper assumes that the latest Balkan migration crisis has been constructed as a security threat to EU countries and its citizens, while the safety of people fleeing war, famine, conflict, demographic and environmental pressures (from Africa and Middle East) is largely neglected and transferred to the non-governmental sector, humanitarian organizations and private individuals. The enormous cost of endangering the human safety of persons on the move is ignored (increase in mortality, the spread of smuggling networks, illegal entry, trafficking in human beings, etc.). Forced immobility due to the inability to cross the borders in the countries of transit is associated with numerous social problems, in conditions of unpreparedness for increased inflow, acceptance and protection of migrants, both at global and local level. Since the beginning of the migrant crisis, Serbia has taken a “refugee friendly” policy, which implies a responsible, humanitarian approach. However, the change in political discourse on migration flows in connection with the opening of some chapters related to EU accession has led to a shift towards a security position, that is, the adoption of discourses that increasingly take on an alarming connotation. For all the foregoing, the paper will show the position of migrants and asylum seekers in Serbia, as well as the (unwillingness) of the state to respond to the growing challenges in the area of their acceptance and protection, primarily after March 2016 and the official closure of the Balkan route.
Ključne riječi
Security; migrants; Balkan migration route; Serbia; immobility
Hrčak ID:
210730
URI
Datum izdavanja:
3.12.2018.
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