Forced Migration and Refugee Protection - Challenges for Europe and the World

In 2015 one and a half million forced migrants entered the European Union without border control. All over Europe hundreds of thousands of volunteers, groups and organisations offered food or shelter and welcomed the incomings. There also rose xenophobic protest, and EU-member states reacted between hostility and “we will make it”. How to explain the overwhelming welcoming by civil society and the variety of state reactions? Did the idea of a Common European Asylum System sunk in the Mediterranean Sea? Was the reception of refugees in 2015 signal and part of a new transnational social movement? Based on primary and secondary data analysis this book provides a social science insight into the dynamics of the so called refugee crisis, the origin of refugees and the responses of civil society. It characterises the politics of member states’ governments as organized non-responsibility and analyses the long term challenges of European refugee protection. This project will be published in 2018 in Edward Elgar/UK.