New Balkan migration route and its impact on transit countries
New Balkan migration route and its impact on transit countries
Author(s): Magdalena RekśćSubject(s): Security and defense, Politics and society, Comparative politics, Migration Studies, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Geopolitics, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Instytut Europy Środkowej
Keywords: Balkans; New Balkan Route; migration crisis; refugees; geopolitics;
Summary/Abstract: In 2015, global public opinion was shaken by the migration crisis, as wave after wave of refugees from the Middle East, primarily from Syria, tried to get from Turkey and Greece to Western Europe via the so-called ‘Balkan Route’. In time, the situation only seemed to be resolved. In the Balkan countries, there still are, according to estimates, tens of thousands of migrants who failed to get farther west, and more are constantly arriving. Meanwhile, since 2018, one can speak of a new, though a much smaller wave of immigrants who are trying to get from Greece to Croatia (and thus to the European Union), increasingly often bypassing Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina along the way. The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the phenomenon of the so-called ‘New Balkan Route’ and the problems it creates for the Balkans.
Journal: Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
- Issue Year: 17/2019
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 141-160
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English