European migration policy issues and their solutions

• Main Author: Nataliia Pack
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 2017-12-01
• Series: Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна: Серія Міжнародні відносини, економіка, країнознавство, туризм
• Online Access: https://periodicals.karazin.ua/irtb/article/view/9971/9487

The article deals with peculiarities of the migration policies of European countries. It presents the main groups of factors influencing the migration policies of the states, cites the legal documents and investigates the measures taken by European governments to regulate the migration flows. The article shows what processes take place in Europe today and how they depend on the migration policy used to be implemented in Europe for a long time. The article also provides an analysis of current issues of migration policies of the European states. The directions to be implemented to settle the situation developed in Europe due to the influx of refugees from the East are substantiated. This paper suggests that the European countries should develop a common strategy of the further migration policy towards solution of the current problems.