THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN SUPPORT OF UNDERSTANDING THE SECURITY CHALLENGE POSED IN EUROPE BY THE REFUGEE AND ILLEGAL MIGRANT CRISIS
THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN SUPPORT OF UNDERSTANDING THE SECURITY CHALLENGE POSED IN EUROPE BY THE REFUGEE AND ILLEGAL MIGRANT CRISIS

Summary/Abstract: The author starts the present approach from the premise that the thorough understanding of the security challenges posed in Europe by the refugee and illegal migrant crisis is hindered by the existing conceptual confusion related to the terms “refugee” and “illegal migrant”, ignored by a part of the mass media that prefers disseminating impact messages at the expense of official statistics. On the one hand, the present article is an attempt to clarify the aspects related to the terminology that is specific to crisis analysis, and, on the other hand, it is a succinct radiography of the phenomenon that, in the author’s opinion, has many facets to be studied: from statistical data, through migration models and the psychosocial representation of refugees and migrants up to the policies and strategies intended to manage the crisis.

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