Migrants crisis

A hybrid two-days conference in Sarajevo created space for grassroots activists, academia, media professionals, policy-makers and others engaged in the region to discuss timely issues around migration and refugee policies in the region and on EU level.

This essay investigates the effects of contemporary migrations on the constitution of a new epoch of peace, with particular emphasis on the European Union as a desired integrating entity for hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from their hearths.

"It all started when the fake FB profile Fatima Hadzic USK called for protests. People were called to organize and return migrants, that is, to prevent their arrival in Velika Kladuša and surrounding areas."

The country, from which hundreds of thousands of people fled during the war from 1992 to 1995 and were accepted in Western European countries, is treating refugees increasingly inhumanely. They are confronted with ignorance and harassment. The blame for the alarming conditions is assigned to the EU and its rigorous isolation policy. 

Recent events from EU border, namely Greek – Turkish border show significant limits in protecting EU external border five years after emerging of migration crisis of 2015 and 2016. As discussed by many experts, such as Sergio Carrera,[1] divergence between rule of law set by EU and Council of Europe enforced by EU institutions and agencies, and security measures introduced and implemented by EU member states.   [1] https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-publications/eu-border-management-strategy-frontex-and-challenges-irregular-immigration-canary/

Every day I go to the mountains with my colleague Dean Blažević and some Bosnian volunteers to look for people. Sometimes 20 miles deep in the woods we find women, children, teens and adult men. Frozen, hungry, with wet clothes and some sick or beaten by Croatian border police.

The European Commission considers on 22 October 2019 that Croatia fulfils the necessary conditions for its entry into the Schengen area. Despite numerous reports and appeals from various civil society (Are you serious, Center of peace study) representatives, gouvernmental and non-governmental organisations (UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Council for Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International..) to alert Brussels and the public concerning the human rights violations committed by Croatia.