An EU law that was introduced in 2001. The Directive created a special procedure to deal with a 'mass influx of people in need of international protection. The Directive sets out the minimum standards for giving protection to people in the event of a mass influx. Individual EU countries can grant additional rights, but cannot provide less than what is set out in the Directive. The Directive applies to all EU countries except Denmark. The Directive defines ‘mass influx’ as a ‘large number of displaced persons, who come from a specific country or geographical area.’ There is no minimum number of people needed for it to be considered a mass influx.
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Migration From Georgia and Ukraine in the Context of Russian Aggression
Giga Abuseridze (Riga Stradins University, Latvia), Olena Agapova (National Aerospace University “KhAI”, Kharkiv, Ukraine), Inga Paliani-Dittrich (Independent Researcher, Georgia), Janis Grasis (Riga Stradins University, Latvia), and Eka Kavelidze (Caucasus University, Georgia)
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6334-5.ch007
Abstract
The authors examine migration as one of the urgent problems of the modern global world. The phenomenon of migration has been indispensable for human history, culture, and civilizations, the causes of which have always existed and still exist. All sorts of wars, confrontations/conflicts turn a group of society into refugees and push them to migrate from the source of conflict to neighboring or distant countries. Also, the underlying causes, such as social, political, economic, and other factors, which are inherent of the domestic and foreign policy of any country, are considered as an important aspect. The chapter also reviews the migration profile of Georgia and Ukraine. Particular attention is paid to migration as a result of conflicts/ethnic conflicts instigated by Russia, Russian occupation, as well as other migration inducing factors. It is concluded that the migration policy solves not only the problems of migration, but also the tasks of economic development, respect for human rights, etc.