New Perspectives on the European Refugee Crisis. An Empirical Review. Introduction to the special issue
Year: 2019
Type: editorial
Abstract: The current Special Issue in the Journal of Refugee Studies provides new evidence about refugees’ situation in first-reception and final-destination countries in Europe. It empirically reviews mental health screening and survey methodology tools for refugee populations, integration conditions and attitudes of host societies. It also provides a comparative overview of asylum policies and media discourses about the refugee crisis in Europe and highlights priorities for policy and future research. Greece has been the main gateway to Europe since 2014, receiving massive inflows of asylum seekers and migrants, reaching a peak of 857,000 arrivals in 2015. Following the EU–Turkey agreement in March 2016 and the subsequent closure of the Balkan route, the numbers drastically dropped, but nearly 60,000 refugees were entrapped in Greece, leading to a humanitarian crisis (Cavounidis 2018). Since then, reception conditions have been a ‘persistent challenge’ (FRA 2019), as Greece is struggling with a disproportional share of the burden to accommodate and provide sufficient care for the once again increasing number of displaced populations.
Source: Journal of Refugee Studies
DOI: 10.1093/jrs/fez096
Authors: Theoni Stathopoulou, Terje Andreas Eikemo
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3000286791