Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/sb.60.2.4
Violence in Context of European Migration Crisis
Darko Rapić
orcid.org/0000-0002-3026-8804
Šimun Bilokapić
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
Abstract
Migration and the migration crisis are taking over the whole Europe. Not just its territory, but its spirit, thought and feelings. Europe is forced to think, plan, and often be scared. Someone unknown and threatening is here, among us. It is someone who scares us. One of the triggers for Europe’s urgent engagement is certainly the fear of actual or possible violence (too) often themed in the media. Unfortunately, it happens that the fear of violence and the unknown becomes a means of intimidating the local population against those who need perhaps only understanding and acceptance. Therefore, the basic purpose of this paper is to show, on the basis of understanding the essential features of the phenomenon of violence, and on the basis of a close rexamination of some of the statistical elements of the migration crisis, in particular the fact that migrants are both perpetrators and victims of violence, that there is no concrete evidence that would specifically link migration and violence in the sense of a significant increase in migration-related violence. The migrant crisis and the 'unknown someone' are not solved by manipulation, fear, threat and violence, but by the actualization of the fundamental evangelical values of love and solidarity, acceptance and hospitality.
Keywords
Hrčak ID:
238121
URI
Publication date:
20.5.2020.
Visits: 1.498 *