MIGRATION AND TERRORISM - THE PROBLEM AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Zirojević, Mina and Nikolić, Oliver (2017) MIGRATION AND TERRORISM - THE PROBLEM AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS. In: International Scientific Conference ”Security concepts and policies - New generation of risks and threats”. University St Kliment Ohridski Bitola, Faculty of Security Skoplje, Ohrid, pp. 139-147. ISBN 978-608-4828-05-1

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Abstract

In the early decades of this century, we have witnessed a sudden increase in the number of hot spots, and thus the migration, transnational crime and terrorism. What is most worrying is the fact that the migrant-wave increases international terrorism. The wave of such attacks, which in Western Europe started with the massacre in Paris on 13 November 2015, does not stop, and France and Belgium have already singled out as centers of terrorist activities. The current migrant crisis and the crisis of terrorism in Western Europe are not separate, but related processes, the consequences of which may be severe and far-reaching. There is no doubt that the movement of migrants affects the national security of the countries whose territory they cross, or remain into, so it is not surprising that the issue of transnational migration has become one of the most important security issues in the EU. Searching for solutions that can contribute to overcoming the problems brought about by the migrant crisis and its associated terrorism, it is necessary, first of all, not to succumb to the prejudices that every migrant is a potential terrorist. However, it is also necessary not to lose sight of the fact that among the migrants there are also terrorists. In conditions of globalization, these problems are in any case beyond national boundaries and therefore they must be addressed not only at national, but also at the international and even global level.

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