The Existential Threat: Migration, Refugees, and the Future of Europe

This report examines the impact of migration and the refugee crisis on European countries. It begins by outlining the core values of the EU, including human rights, the rule of law, and democracy, and the legal frameworks that govern movement within the EU. The report details the causes of migration and refugee flows, highlighting political, social, and cultural factors. It explores the economic, social, and political impacts of migration and the refugee crisis, including unemployment, increased crime rates, and political conflicts. The EU's response to the crisis, including border controls and funding for affected countries, is analyzed. The report concludes with a discussion of proposed policies and expectations, such as increased funding and efforts to combat human trafficking, with the goal of mitigating the refugee crisis. The report references several academic sources to support its arguments and findings.

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It is true that migration and the arrival of refugees have impersonated an existential threat
to the European countries. Migration is the movement of the European citizens in the interior
European countries. Refugee calamity is the irresistible association of the refugees from the
countries that are outside Europe together with those individuals who are seeking refuge. The
majority of the Europeans believe that most of the refugees who are moving to their countries
have resulted to the increased cases of terrorist attacks. Migration of people is caused by several
factors. The factors may be political issues within their countries, social issues or even the
cultural conflicts between the neighboring ethnical groups. Some countries always have a
positive approach when it comes to the cases of refugees while others consider them as a burden
in their countries. European countries are threatened by the regular arrivals of the refugees to
their countries because they believe that they are the reason to the increased terrorist attacks
within their countries.
The core values of the European countries included the following; human rights,
regulation of law and equality. The human rights include the right to freedom of one’s opinion,
the right to practice the religious practices, freedom to express one’s thoughts and ideas, right to
full access of security and the right to unbiased hearing in the courts of justice. There were also
some immoral acts that are not allowed in the European countries. They include discernment,
anguish, salve trade and punishment of the criminal cases without the involvement of the law.
They consider democracy to be a factor among others when it comes to practice of fair elections
within the countries. When a state or a country is governed by the rule of law, they are likely to
carry out fair trials in their courts and when they punish their citizens who go against the law,
they are likely to do it in accordance with the laws of the state, (Ford, 2014).

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Impacts of migration within different countries can be positive or negative depending
on the situation or the responses of the countries that they are migrating to. The migrants in most
cases cost a lot of issues because they are more of a liability to the country. In most cases they do
benefit more when they come in and whatever they give in return is less compared to what they
take out. The migrants do take the jobs away from the main citizens and this is has received a
negative response from the counties that they move to. Migration has led to increased cases of
unemployment among the young people, (Sagynbekova, 2016).
Refugee crisis is the irresistible association of the refugees from the countries that are
outside Europe together with those individuals who are seeking refuge. The majority of the
Europeans believe that most of the refugees who are moving to their countries have resulted to
the increased cases of terrorist attacks. Migration of people is caused by several factors. The
factors may be political issues within their countries, social issues or even the cultural conflicts
between the neighboring ethnical groups. Some countries always have a positive approach when
it comes to the cases of refugees while others consider them as a burden in their countries.
European countries are threatened by the regular arrivals of the refugees to their countries
because they believe that they are the reason to the increased terrorist attacks within their
countries, (Goździak & Main, 2020).
EU response to the refugee crisis: The European countries are against the regular
European arrivals in their states because of the negative impacts that are experienced thereafter.
Therefore the European responses towards the refugee crisis were mostly in the negative ways.
The politicians who were good and sympathized with the refugee’s implemented harder
deportments as public repercussion grew and elections drew near. The leaders in power ordered
that the boats which were leaving their territorial waters were to be stopped by immediate effect

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because they were the ones who ferried the refuges to the European countries. There were
borders that were also tightened so that they the movements of refugees to the European
countries could be restricted. The countries that were located along the primary roots that were
taken by the refuge seekers to the west Europe like Hungary and Slovenia were the ones that put
restrictions in their borders as an order from the ruling government. It is clear that the European
countries outlined their responses as an effort to focus on the cooperation within their countries
in order to support the countries that were the victims of the refugee influx during that time,
(Reihard, 2016).
The limits of European responses on the ground included the following: European
countries lacked strong strategies that could be followed to achieve their set goals towards
assisting the countries where the refugees generated from. The European countries had a
weakness in achieving their set goals. They focused mostly on launching a representative
presence. The Europeans also had unproductive policies hence limiting them to work towards
their responses on the ground, (Zaun, 2018).
The measures taken by the member states in the refugee countries include the
following; The member states have prepared the European countries’ funding in order to give
support to the countries that were victims of the refugee crisis. The Members states have also
increased their efforts in dealing with the business smugglers and they have also dismantled the
group of people who carry out the practice of human trafficking. The member states have also
improved in the donation of huge funds to assuage the refugee crisis. The Member states have
also publicized commonality to the neighboring countries by agreeing to settle some of the
refugees from the countries that are not within the location of European countries, (Odutayo,
2018).

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Economic impacts of the refugee crisis: The movement of the refugee victims to the
European countries had some economic impacts. The refugees strove with the home-grown
citizens for the limited resources such medical services, housing, food land. There were highly
fluctuated prices of commodities because there was decrease in the supply of goods, (Liang &
Hsu, 2014).
Social impacts: There was failure of proper communication due to varying languages
between the people and misunderstanding of cultural practices. The presence of the refugees led
to increased terrorist attacks and high crime rate. Despite the negative effects the refugees also
had positive impacts. They introduced new skills and assets that benefited the native citizens
around there, (Longo, 2018).
Political impacts: Due to the increased terrorist attacks, there have been political
conflicts between the European countries and even the outside countries because of the suspicion
of where the attacks might have originated, (Kovačević, 2018).
In conclusion, both migration and refugee crisis have several effects, both positive and
negative to the refugees themselves and the native citizens of the countries they always move to.
The migrants in most cases cost a lot of issues because they are more of a liability to the country.
In most cases they do benefit more when they come in and whatever they give in return is less
compared to what they take out. The migrants do take the jobs away from the main citizens and
this is has received a negative response from the counties that they move to. Migration has led to
increased cases of unemployment among the young people. The presence of the refugees led to
increased terrorist attacks and high crime rate. Despite the negative effects the refugees also had

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positive impacts. They introduced new skills and assets that benefited the native citizens around
there.
The proposed policies and expectations include the following: There should be
prepared the European countries’ funding in order to give support to the countries that were
victims of the refugee crisis. There should be increased efforts in dealing with the business
smugglers and also dismantling of the groups of people who carry out the practice of human
trafficking. The member states should also improve in the donation of huge funds to assuage the
refugee crisis. The Member states should publicize commonality to the neighboring countries by
agreeing to settle some of the refugees from the countries that are not within the location of
European. The expectation is to experience the reduced cases of refugee crisis.
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