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The EU Integration Process of the Western Balkans in the Aftermath of 2015's Refugee Crisis

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Brsakoska-Bazerkoska J.

Studia Europejskie-Studies in European Affairs

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2022

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vol. 26

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issue 2

123-140

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The worst contemporary refugee crisis that occurred during the summer of 2015 challenged the basic values of the European Union. There had never been a time when the need for a consistent approach, both from the individual Member States and the EU as a whole, was more urgent. The Union's response during 2015's refugee crisis was unreliable, fragmented, and it largely affected the Western Balkan countries that are now aspiring to become EU Member States. This paper analyses how the EU's response to the refugee crisis has affected and still affects the countries in the Western Balkans, which are all in different stages of their European integration. The refugee crisis created many challenges for the Western Balkan countries which are all weak democracies and which have unstable institutions. This paper also analyses the numerous domestic costs connected to these countries when faced with the refugee crisis. Finally, the paper argues that, although largely harmonised with the EU acquis, the legislative and institutional frameworks for migration management in Western Balkan countries need further adjustment.

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The Albanian Migration to Greece and the Refugee Crisis of 2015 from the Greek Perspective

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Nikas C., Aspasios D.

Studia Europejskie-Studies in European Affairs

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2021

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vol. 25

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issue 3

115-135

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Although migration has always been a timeless and volatile phenomenon, modern transnational movements of people have become a dominant topic of interest by constantly acquiring new characteristics that modify their evolutionary process. Europe is a geographical area that has been significantly affected by recent changes as a result of the evolution of migration flows of the last 30 years. The urgent need to initially understand and later implement evidence-based policies in order to sufficiently manage the migration phenomenon can be considered as the basic spark that led to the scientific blast of the 21st century, focusing on the gradual development of migration studies. One of the most notable efforts of the scientific community was the use of the comparison method to examine, understand, and in some cases even forecast the characteristics of specific migration case studies, thereby forming the backbone of comparative migration research in general. Greece, due to its geographical position, has been unintentionally positioned, many times, inside the so called “ring of fire”, as result of multiple factors and disastrous events that evolved mainly in its neighbouring countries, forcing massive, irregular migration flows to its external borders. The outbreak of the Albanian exodus in the early 1990s and the recent refugee flows of 2015 can be described as two major migration crises that have occurred in Greek's contemporary history, making their comparison a fruitful example of the potential capabilities of the above-mentioned method, contributing to a holistic study of the migration phenomenon in Greece.

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The EU Migration Crisis in Terms of Asylum Applications Received. A Cluster Analysis over the Period 2015–2018

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Nicolescu A. F., Drăgan G.

Studia Europejskie-Studies in European Affairs

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2020

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issue 4

109-124

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This research sets out the importance of studying the refugee crisis and the phenomenon of migration, the way refugees reach European territoryand in which states they aim to settle. The first part of the article shows the evolution of illegal entries on the routes that refugees use to enter the European continent in the period between 2009–2018. The second part of the article aims to highlight the European States which were affected by the refugee crisis in light of the asylum requests submitted by the applicants for international protection in the EU between 2015–2018. Therefore the analysis led to the classification of the European States into four clusters: (i) states with a high number of asylum applications; (ii) states with a medium to high number of asylum applications; (iii) states with a small to medium number of asylum applications; (iv) states with a small number of asylum applications. The objective of this classification is to identify the states that were affected by the refugee crisis.

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The EU Integration Process of the Western Balkans in the Aftermath of 2015's Refugee Crisis

The Albanian Migration to Greece and the Refugee Crisis of 2015 from the Greek Perspective

The EU Migration Crisis in Terms of Asylum Applications Received. A Cluster Analysis over the Period 2015–2018