Економіка, управління та адміністрування (Aug 2020)
Refugee and asylum seeker policies: the experience of the EU Eastern Partnership countries
Abstract
The aim of the article is to study the practice of regulation of migration and integration of refugees in the Eastern partnership countries of the EU to determine their positive experience and establish directions of its implementation in Ukraine. The article analyzes the approaches to the regulation of migration and integration of refugees in the countries of asylum (by the example of the policies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus and Moldova). It is determined that the migration of refugees in these countries has a post-conflict nature, and the prerequisites for such migration are described. The experience of these countries regarding the consolidation of the rights of refugees and their status, the implementation of educational and social policies, policies in the field of accommodation and voting rights is processed. The article formulates the directions of individual policies that should be implemented in the national policy of Ukraine as one of the Eastern partnership countries, in particular, ensuring legal protection of the rights and interests of refugees, as well as political and legal guarantees of the implementation of these laws, improving the living conditions of refugees, wider access to social infrastructure, increasing employment and welfare, ensuring the availability of means of integration of migrants into the linguistic and cultural environment, obtaining education, while preserving the rights to national, ethnic and religious identification. This will strengthen the readiness of state and local government officials to work with refugees, create an appropriate information field to disseminate information about the rights of refugees, create conditions for ensuring a minimum level of well-being of refugees in the host country, and stimulate interaction between refugees and members of the host society on a conflict-free basis.
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