Put the Burden on Whom? Transit or Destination Countries: The Cases of Greece and Croatia
Put the Burden on Whom? Transit or Destination Countries: The Cases of Greece and Croatia

Author(s): Rukiye Deniz
Subject(s): Politics, Geography, Regional studies, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Croatia; EU; Greece; hotspot; migrants; migration policy;
Summary/Abstract: Europe has been experiencing an influx of migrants since mid-2015. Several people try to reach Europe in search of a better life away from their war-devastated homelands. Their first entry into Europe is mainly the countries close to their homelands. Greece, therefore, has been the focus of the international community due to vast numbers of persons reaching its shores every single day, especially since the escalation of the Syrian civil war. Selected as a hotspot, it received assistance from the European Union. On the other hand, Croatia has been unexpectedly subjected to thousands of migrants within a short period of time. Eventually, it was awarded financial support from the Union. Upon migrant crisis, the EU introduced new mechanisms to support the states facing migrant influx. In this article, measures and attempts by the European Union to support Greece and Croatia in handling the migrant crisis are reviewed. The article tries to answer to what extent such attempts have been successful in assisting Greece and Croatia.

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