Balkan migrations and the European Union: Patterns and Trends
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CONTRIBUTORS:
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JOURNAL:
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The Romanian Journal of European Studies,
83(4),
31 -
44.
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YEAR:
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2005
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PUB TYPE:
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Journal Article
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SUBJECT(S):
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migration balkans EU
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DISCIPLINE:
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Political Science
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HTTP:
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http://aei.pitt.edu/7048/
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None
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PUB ID:
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103-432-626
(Last edited on
2007/02/03 09:52:52 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
The Balkan countries exhibit a wide range of migration types, levels of economic development and formal relationship to the EU. Four types of migration — forced migrations, ethnic migrations, trafficking and temporary migration – are examined in some detail for the whole region. It is concluded that forced migration has generally ceased, although return of refugees remains a major issue; that ethnic migrations have largely discontinued, with the partial exception of Roma; trafficking appears to be in decline; and that temporary migration has been an option only for Romanians and Bulgarians. There is little evidence of a major problem with transit migration, bor-der controls are now operating efficiently, and all countries of the region are rapidly adapting to the
EU acquis communautaire. The prognosis is that migration patterns are becoming more “normal”, with trends of temporary labour emigration and asylum-seekers from outside the region. The real problem is exclusion (of some countries) from the Schengen white list, and the existence of a Schengen wall comparable with the former Iron Curtain.
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