Hungarian police is shooting a water gun towards Syrian refugees
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Mass migration and refugees in European region was always one of the main problems of EU's policy making. However, the number of refugees from Syria was increased significantly because of the worsen civil war status in Syria. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are more than 3 million refugees who left Syria in last 4 years. Most of them moved to neighbour countries including Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. However, because of the economic size and GDP of those countries, they are not eligible to accept all the refugees from Syria. Neighbour countries are not rich enough to provide all the food and resettlement services for Syrian refugees. Thus, refugees are forced to head to richer European countries and EU is facing a big challenge.
To solve the refugee crisis, EU suggested a new policy model called refugee quota system. A new model is based on the distribution of the refugees by economic circumstances such as GDP, population and unemployment rate. The first country that argued refugee quota system was Germany and France is also an ardent supporter of a new system. However, because of this new system, the conflicts between EU countries were emerged and it is getting much serious after the outbreak of the crisis. Since Eastern Europe countries are under relatively poorer economic circumstances than Western European countries, they are not happy with a new quota system. However, not only Eastern European countries are not happy with this new model. The United Kingdom also expressed its negative opinion on refugee quota system.
European Union and its member states are known as the icon of the human rights and democracy. However, many of EU states are not happy with accept of refugees even though the refugee crisis is serious human rights problem. Why don't they accept the refugees if they really concern the human rights? Why do they act like the hypocrites?
The answer is in the international states itself. According to the realist international relations scholars, there is no global government and international state is anarchy. It means that all the states only act for their national benefit so it is very natural that many EU states are not happy with acceptance of the refugees from Syria. The refugees harm the national economy and the benefits that they bring are very small.
The crisis also shows that international government and law are not working efficiently because all the nation states are only considering on their own benefits. Under the UN charter, there is convention relating to the status of refugees. All the EU states already signed with the convention and they have the duty to accept refugees under humanitarian crisis. However, most of them expressed that they will not accept the increased number of the refugees. It clearly shows that the international government and law do not have a power.
The crisis is a strong evidence of realism theory and the use of Dublin regulation as a tool clearly shows it. Many EU states reject the responsibility on refugees and they address Dublin regulation as the reason for their rejection. According to Dublin regulation, "the first Member State where finger prints are stored or an asylum claim is lodged is responsible for a person's asylum claim." Hungary is the first EU states that refugees encounter if they use the inland route. Thus, the EU states argue that Hungary has a duty to solve the Syrian refugee crisis. It clearly shows that EU states use Dublin regulation as a tool and it is often argued by realist scholars. The scholars argue that international organisation and law are only the tools of nation states and the case of Syrian refugee crisis proves it.
Some people would argue that Germany is an exception of the realism theory because it suggested a new model of refugee quota system and it accepts the largest number of the refugees from Syria among EU states. However, Germany accepts Syrian refugees for its reputation in international politics and maintenance of EU. Germany is the biggest economic unit among European Union member states so it is a key state of EU. If Germany also rejects the acceptance of Syrian refugees, the other EU states will also easily reject the refugees and the refugee crisis will be worse. If the refugee crisis gets worse, not only global economy will get influenced. The refugee crisis has a potential to harm global peace and security as well. Worsen situation will break the unity of EU and Germany does not want such situation happens. Germany is one of the countries that is getting the largest benefits from EU. Thus, it is accepting large number of refugees and it is for its own national benefit as well.
Refugee crisis is getting worse and worse. However, the nations are getting split rather than united. The era of realism has come.
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| Resettled 120,000 refugees (Credit for image: Statista) |
To solve the refugee crisis, EU suggested a new policy model called refugee quota system. A new model is based on the distribution of the refugees by economic circumstances such as GDP, population and unemployment rate. The first country that argued refugee quota system was Germany and France is also an ardent supporter of a new system. However, because of this new system, the conflicts between EU countries were emerged and it is getting much serious after the outbreak of the crisis. Since Eastern Europe countries are under relatively poorer economic circumstances than Western European countries, they are not happy with a new quota system. However, not only Eastern European countries are not happy with this new model. The United Kingdom also expressed its negative opinion on refugee quota system.
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| European Union (Credit for image: Euvataction) |
The answer is in the international states itself. According to the realist international relations scholars, there is no global government and international state is anarchy. It means that all the states only act for their national benefit so it is very natural that many EU states are not happy with acceptance of the refugees from Syria. The refugees harm the national economy and the benefits that they bring are very small.
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| Realism (Credit for image: E-International Relations) |
The crisis is a strong evidence of realism theory and the use of Dublin regulation as a tool clearly shows it. Many EU states reject the responsibility on refugees and they address Dublin regulation as the reason for their rejection. According to Dublin regulation, "the first Member State where finger prints are stored or an asylum claim is lodged is responsible for a person's asylum claim." Hungary is the first EU states that refugees encounter if they use the inland route. Thus, the EU states argue that Hungary has a duty to solve the Syrian refugee crisis. It clearly shows that EU states use Dublin regulation as a tool and it is often argued by realist scholars. The scholars argue that international organisation and law are only the tools of nation states and the case of Syrian refugee crisis proves it.
Some people would argue that Germany is an exception of the realism theory because it suggested a new model of refugee quota system and it accepts the largest number of the refugees from Syria among EU states. However, Germany accepts Syrian refugees for its reputation in international politics and maintenance of EU. Germany is the biggest economic unit among European Union member states so it is a key state of EU. If Germany also rejects the acceptance of Syrian refugees, the other EU states will also easily reject the refugees and the refugee crisis will be worse. If the refugee crisis gets worse, not only global economy will get influenced. The refugee crisis has a potential to harm global peace and security as well. Worsen situation will break the unity of EU and Germany does not want such situation happens. Germany is one of the countries that is getting the largest benefits from EU. Thus, it is accepting large number of refugees and it is for its own national benefit as well.
Refugee crisis is getting worse and worse. However, the nations are getting split rather than united. The era of realism has come.
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