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Migration and Security Policy of the Republic of Croatia

During 2015/2016 European migration crisis, the most active migration route to the territory of the EU was the Balkan route. This recent crisis proved to be a very powerful means of political mobilization at domestic level in many countries, in bilateral relations between different countries, whether transit or destination ones, as well as at the EU level. Additionally, it is possible to notice some changes in different countries which point out to strengthening of security approach to migration. The aim of this paper is to indicate whether there are some changes in security policy (not necessarily in conceptual documents), practices and competences of individual institutions in Croatia, which imply the strengthening of securitization approach. These practices and decisions will be put into the context of securitization, as the central point of the constructivist Copenhagen school of security studies. By using this theoretical framework, this paper will try to explain whether and to what extent the security policy of Croatia has changed under the influence of the recent migration crisis.

migration ; security policy ; securitization ; Balkan route ; Republic of Croatia

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