Migration By Sea: Libya and The EU’s Approach
Migration By Sea: Libya and The EU’s Approach

Author(s): Burak Şakir Şeker
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Security and defense, 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: One of the biggest challenges faced in the international arena in recent years is the political chaos in Libya since February 2011. Indeed, the fall of the Gaddafi regime after 42 years of continuous rule marked the beginning of fluctuations until today. Thus, the military intervention of the international coalition not only led to a change in the domestic political situation but also allowed the chronic peculiarities of Libyan society to explode in the most violent way. In these circumstances, the issue of migrant / refugee trafficking as well as that of human trafficking has become particularly large, making it, in combination with migratory flows from the eastern Mediterranean, one of the burning demands to manage the EU under the common European asylum and immigration policy. The EU members have had to deal with the management of migratory flows on the one hand, and the uncontrollable political situation in Libya on the other. Thus, the multi-layered civilian structure has turned Libya into a hub of instability in the wider region between cosmopolitan and ethnic forces, at the same time directly affected irregular migration to Europe and finally posed a threat to the EU itself with significant challenges and dilemmas.

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