Refugee Crisis In Europe:Causes,Reactions,Impacts And Alternative Solutions

Europe tore down borders after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Now a flood of refugees fleeing wars on Europe’s doorstep is putting fences back up. The continent’s biggest wave of displaced people since World War Ⅱ has created scenes of desperate families fleeing barbed-wire camps and children drowned on Europe’s shores. The crisis has exposed deep divisions within the 28-member European Union over what some fear could be a never-ending stream of asylum-see-kers fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa. It has also raised questions about the EU’s commitment to its passport free zone one of the block’s crowing achievements as leaders squabbled over balancing moral and legal obligations with anti refuges sentiment.Since 2011 to the present 2016, the refugee flows to Europe have greatly increased, putting European politics under pressure. There are steady and even growing refugee movements from Africa across the Mediterranean Sea and there is considerable displacement of people fleeing civil war and internal conflicts in the near East, especially from Syria. Meanwhile, the consequences of increasing refugee flows are largely felt at the local level, as municipal authorities throughout Europe receive growing contingents of refugees whom they have to accommodate. The challenge of administrative and practical management of the arrival process is intensified by the need to react to public concerns and xenophobic reactions caused by the visible presence of refugees in peoples’ local environment. Not least, these developments are a result of a common discursive strategy to divide migrants into desirable and deserving versus undesirable and undeserving refugees.My research initiative focuses on the issue of refugee reception on the local level in EU member states. I am aiming to provide a systematic and comparative research on the process of causes of this refuges, different reactions of the EU states, the direct and indirect impact of the refuges in this states, and my alternative solutions for the present situation and future perspective of the refuges.