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Международна правна уредба на бежанеца
International refugee law

Author(s): Maya Milusheva
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Education, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, International Law, Public Law, Higher Education , Migration Studies, EU-Legislation
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: International refugee law

Summary/Abstract: The term refugee today causes two intertwined and mutually reinforcing associations: huge masses of people fleeing disaster - war, genocide, ethnic cleansing ... This picture is true and exaggerated. True, because it's about millions of people - 8.4 million in 2006. Exaggerated if we compare it with the flow of immigrants. He is still 20 times bigger today. Not to mention the XIX - early XX century. Interestingly, the images are similar, not to say identical. The image that synthesizes masses of Europeans who are looking for a new chance in America is a ship crowded with hundreds and thousands of people. The ship then employs this fresh workforce in the construction of railways and new cities, in the conquest of new territories and the prosperity of a new world. The image that the media is even more powerful today is also the same and radically different. It is a ship, crowded with people, and the last hope of a new chance, but nobody wants it. The descendants of migrants from the first ships - both those across the Atlantic and those on the European continent - declare concern about the violated rights of others but are too cautious about their own hospitality.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 78-97
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Bulgarian