Миграционният поток от Близкия изток – проблеми и перспективи
The migration flow from the Middle East - problems and perspectives

Author(s): Ivaylo Petrov
Subject(s): Security and defense, Migration Studies
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: migration; problems; prospects;
Summary/Abstract: The timeliness of the report consists in the growing power and unpredictable consequences for national security related to new forms of various threats in global and regional terms, with various socio-economic, political, ethnic and religious factors standing in their core. The question arises about the refugee wave of asylum seekers from Syria through Bulgaria and its neighboring countries to Western Europe as a way for the transit of foreign fighters-terrorists. Objects of the study is the migration flow seen on one hand as a result of the activities of the Islamic State, and the other hand - as a potential threat to the security of Bulgaria and hence Europe as a whole. The paper studies the various forms of threat and destabilization of order and security in the country and the EU. It outlines the main causes of migration wave as a tool for illegal crossing of militants through the territory of Bulgaria.

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