الهجرة الجماعية السورية وأزمة اللاجئين في الاتحاد الأوروبي 2015: تهديد هجين أم فرصة لتنفيذ دبلوماسية الهجرة

Year 2021, Volume: 10 Issue: 3, 121 - 148, 01.07.2021

İbrahim İrdem , Yavor Raychev

Abstract

تبحث هذه الدراسة في استخدام الهجرة القسرية المهندسة باعتبارها تهديدًا هجينًا خلال أزمة اللاجئين في الاتحاد الأوروبي لعام 2015 . ويجادل الباحثان بأن الهجرة القسرية المهندسة يمكن أن تُستخدَم تهديدًا من قبل دولة، حتى عندما لا تكون مصدر التدفقات الخارجة؛ وأنه من الممكن في ظل ظروف الصراع الداخلي أو الخارجي في الدولة التي هي مصدر الهجرة؛ أن يكون المتحدي للدولة على الأرجح دولة استبدادية تدعم حكومة دولة الهجرة. يذكر الباحثان أن الإجراء السليم بالنسبة لتركيا والاتحاد الأوروبي في ظروف أزمة 2015 ، يتمثل في تطوير مبادرة دبلوماسية الهجرة التي يمكن أن تسهم في حلّ مستدام ومفيد للطرفين.

Keywords

أزمة اللاجئين, التهديد الهجين, الهجرة, دبلوماسية الهجرة

Syrian Mass Migration: A Hybrid Threat or Chance for Implementing Migration Diplomacy?

Abstract

This article examines the use of coercive engineered migration as a hybrid threat during the 2015 EU refugee crisis. The authors argue that coercive engineered migration can be used as a threat by a state, even when it is not the source of outflows; that it is possible under conditions of an internal or external conflict in the state that is the source of migration; that a state-challenger would most probably be an authoritarian state that supports the government of the emigration state. The authors state that the sound action for Turkey and the EU in the conditions of a crisis that of 2015, would be to develop a migration diplomacy initiative that could contribute not only to a deal but to a sustainable, mutually beneficial solution for both parties.

Keywords

Refugee Crisis, Hybrid Threat, Migration, Migration Diplomacy

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