Multiple Faces of the Migration Crisis

Abstract

In 2015, Europe faced an unprecedented inflow of refugees and migrants. Political instability at the continent's peripheries contributed to an accumulative exodus. This resulted in large immigration waves fleeing mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq as well as from other North African countries. Europe was confronted with an increasing number of asylum applications and had to accommodate over a million people (Clayton, 2015). The crisis in Europe has been framed both as a migration crisis and as a crisis within the European Union (EU). The Dublin Regulation, of 2013, requires only one Member state to process the asylum applications. During the pressing period of 2015, the notion of responsibility sharing resulted in heated debates between South and Central and Eastern European states. Several countries like Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary expressed openly antimigrant opinions, which resulted in even more confusion and mismanagement of the migration crisis in the EU. Analyzing the crisis from the macro, meso and micro level, it was evident that the crisis was multifaceted.

Citation

Matusz, P., Aivaliotou, E. and Przytuła, S. (2020), "Multiple Faces of the Migration Crisis", Przytuła, S. and Sułkowski, Ł. (Ed.) Integration of Migrants into the Labour Market in Europe (Advanced Series in Management, Vol. 25), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1877-636120200000025002