Impacts of Afghanistan Refugee Crisis and Solutions for European Union
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.075How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Refugee; Human security; European Union; Securitization; Afghanistan
- Abstract
Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan on the 15th of August, it is worried that a new refugee crisis similar to the situation in 2015 is generating. This essay aims to explore how the refugee crisis poses threats on countries European Union and possible solutions for this situation. To begin, the effects of the refugee crisis from the perspective of traditional security studies since the Cold War period are discussed in order to demonstrate the effects of refugees on national security. Then the manifesting problem of over-securitizing forced migrations will be evaluated by analyzing countries’ motivations and regarding international refugee laws. Through the evaluation, it shows that the over-securitizing refugee crisis will damage refugees’ basic human rights with violations of the international refugee law. To handle the emerging refugee crisis, cooperation within members of the European Union could be an efficient way through the investigation of the Schengen Agreement and Dublin Regulation. European Union should especially support members that are geographically vulnerable to refugee tides by providing financial aids to help them maintain border control and manage refugee reception camps. Also, international institutions could promote countries to cooperate by monitoring them with moral authority. Finally, according to the current situation under the Taliban’s quick control, this emerging refugee crisis is less likely to be as serious as the situation in 2015, and European Union countries could handle it more easily.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yang Shen PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/17 TI - Impacts of Afghanistan Refugee Crisis and Solutions for European Union BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 401 EP - 404 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.075 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.075 ID - Shen2022 ER -