Significance of the Immigrant Influx at the Border with Belarus to Regional Security
Significance of the Immigrant Influx at the Border with Belarus to Regional Security

Author(s): Anna Maria Dyner
Subject(s): Regional Geography, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Belarus; immigration; security; border;
Summary/Abstract: EU and NATO countries bordering Belarus, in particular Lithuania, have been struggling for several weeks with an influx of irregular migrants, induced by the Belarusian authorities to try to cross the border into the EU. Moreover, the regime may try to use the situation in Afghanistan and refugees from that conflict to exacerbate the border crisis. This would worsen the already tense relations between Poland, Lithuania and Latvia on one side and Belarus on the other, and across the region.

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