... weather at sea is mostly good, we should expect another surge of refugees in the next few months.
A Response to A Strategic Challenge
Faced with an aggravating humanitarian disaster, last April 23 in Brussels, EU leaders held an emergency summit on
immigration
. On May 11, EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini
requested
that the UN Security Council intervene and check the refugee flows from Libya to Sicily, while at a May 18 press conference in Brussels,...
... ethnicity
[2]
. During the two decades of independence, their ethnic composition has drastically changed. On the one hand, de-Europeanization followed the massive outflow of non-Asians, while on the other, the titular ethnic groups gained ground through migration from the countryside. For example, over the period 1989-2014, the share of Uzbeks in Tashkent rose from 44 to 65 percent, while that of Russians dropped from 34 to 18 percent. Over the same period, the proportion of Kazakhs in Almaty grew from ...
Something happened there that none of us can cope with...
Hannah Arendt
The history of Europe has dark pages, so dark that their unearthing is viewed as being politically incorrect. Some say that the world has changed, including in discussion of the Holocaust. And this is hardly surprising because remembrance is associated with severe trauma and a desire to recover from the ordeal. Today’s European values appear to be found in much more general matters. However, this is not to say that the Holocaust...
... and strengthening the so-called green and blue border security beyond EU checkpoints (protection of the external borders of the EU).
EPA / ALESSANDRO DI MEO
Alexander Tevdoy-Burmuli:
Dangerous Reefs: Mediterranean Challenges to
the EU’s Common Immigration Policy
The functions of border protection and control within the EU are carried out by national border services. Legislation on border control is adopted at the EU level, while regulations governing the protection of borders are still set by ...
The EU’s immigration policy has again found itself at the centre of attention following the tragic events of April 2015, when
two shipwrecks
in the Mediterranean Sea took the lives of more than a thousand North African refugees making an illegal attempt to reach ...
... unrecognized states, there are forces that are not interested in any dialogue and rely solely on maintained and even increased support from Moscow. But should Russian policy place a stake on these particular forces in the long run?
How to build a new immigration policy and relations with the Russian Diaspora?
It is easy to predict that one of the inevitable consequences of the current crisis will be a dramatic increase in the outflow of the energetic and promising professionals abroad. In reality, this ...
The impact of recession that followed the 2008-2009 financial crisis on the immigration policies of Western countries
It is reasonable to suggest that the recession is likely to result tougher immigration policies. This is basically correct, although reality is somewhat more complicated. First, there is no causal link between ...
On December 17, 2014, Bishkek was the venue of a working meeting for staffers and experts of RIAC and
Kyrgyz National Institute for Strategic Studies
on a future joint migration project.
Russia is hosting about 500,000 Kyrgyz immigrants with Russian citizenship and about the same number of Kyrgyz citizens, with quite a lot of migration issues on the agenda, among them the impact of Bishkek's presence in the Customs ...
... and academics, in the 1990s. Interest subsided in the early 2000s, but the issue is definitely gaining ground with the flow of refugees on the rise.
For many centuries, Russia was a country with tight borders that exercised strict state control over migration, first of all that coming from the outside of the country. At the same time, people, mostly ethnic Russians, were constantly migrating from centrally located regions to the periphery. This process intensified during the Soviet period to the ...
Migration in Russia and Georgia Today
This article offers an analysis of the importance of demography as a major influence on the development of ties between Russia and Georgia, a factor which effectively facilitated neighborly and mutually beneficial ...
