Refugees, Migration and Security Threats
Refugees, Migration and Security Threats

Author(s): Saadat Demirci
Subject(s): Security and defense, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Migration Series; Climate change; DACA; immigrants; international policy; irregular migration; maritime security; migration policy; refugee crisis; refugee law; refugees; Rohingya; terrorism;
Summary/Abstract: In the 21st century, where states place more and more importance on the concept of protecting their borders, the concept of immigration is seen as an important phenomenon that poses a security threat to these borders. Due to the “Arab Spring” and the Syrian civil war that started in the Middle East in 2015, a large migration movement started. 244 million people were immigrated. Asylum movement creates security weaknesses for refugees as well as states. Refugees are seen as a threat to the social order of the state they migrated to. Many European countries have seen the political solution as closing their borders to refugees. However, the security threat is not a phenomenon that frightens a single state. Refugees' avoidance of threats such as falling into the network of radical terrorist organizations and human traffickers during migration has become more difficult with the closing of the borders of the states where they seek asylum.

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