Hold Your Guard: Migration Crisis in South-East Europe

... “external” maritime barriers gave way to deterring the migrants’ flows at the European periphery with a parallel creation of conditions for flexible adaptation of those, whose extradition appears impossible. Refugees’ factor in the Balkans The Balkan countries took the heat during the migration crisis. Greece gripped by the economic crisis and neighboring the coast of Asia Minor became the first victim. The crisis then spread to neighboring Macedonia. At first, the Macedonian government tried to deter refugees by force. A state of emergency was imposed,...