Migration, EU Integration and the Balkan Route

Marko Kmezi¿ is a Senior Scientist and Lecturer at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria.

This book shows how the countries on the Balkan migrant route have been affected according to their degree of integration with the EU and the specific socio-political and economic conditions of each country.

1. Contextualizing Refugee 'Crisis' and EU Integration: Interrelatedness and Mutual Reciprocity Pavlos Gkasis and Marko Kmezi¿ 2. The EU integration project through the lens of the Balkan-route 'migrant crisis' Iryna Kushnir, Majella Kilkey and Francesca Strumia 3. EU-Turkey Relations and the Migration Issue: transactionalism in action Dimitris Tsarouhas 4. The Migration/Refugee Crisis and the (un/re)making of Europe: Risks and challenges for Greece Dimitris Keridis 5. The Balkan Human Corridor and the case of North Macedonia Zoran Ilievski and Hristina Runcheva Tasev 6. The Impact of the "Refugee crisis" on European Integration in the field of Asylum and Migration: a Serbian perspective Stefan Surli¿ 7. Is Bosnia and Herzegovina a New Hotspot on the Balkan Route? Armina Galijaš 8. Securitizing Migration in Contemporary Hungary: From Discourse to Practice András Szalai 9. Germany after '2015': Still a country of immigration and asylum? Marcus Engler 10. Conclusions: The Crisis of Migrants as opposed to the Migrant 'Crisis' and the Crisis of European Solidarity Marko Kmezi¿