Review article

Mass migration: challenges, implications and the way forward

Robert Mikac orcid.org/0000-0003-4568-6299 ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Filip Dragović orcid.org/0000-0002-4572-6468 ; Regional Advisor to the United Nations Development Program

Abstract

From the position of transit and destination countries, mass and uncontrolled migrations present large and very often insurmountable challenge, which is observed in fundamentally different ways by different actors. Such situation helps creating an incomplete picture of the phenomenon itself. Today, mass migrations are caused by mixed push and pull factors – from the combination of war, ethnic intolerance, the lack of public security, climate change and poverty to those (pull) factors which signify just the opposite to their (migrants’) current situation and environment. Although EU member states need large number of immigrants due to demographic and labor shortages, these countries (and the EU) do not possess available, effective and feasible strategic plans, developed skills or the capacity to accommodate a large number of migrants, as we have already witnessed during 2015 and early 2016. The subject of research and analysis in this paper are migration policies and relations towards migrants at the EU level, the level of certain important member states and countries of the so-called Balkan route.

Keywords

Migration policies; migrants; crisis; the European Union; the Balkan route

Hrčak ID:

198071

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/198071

Publication date:

1.6.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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