Проблемы беженцев и миграции - региональный подход (материалы международного семинара)

Abstract

The refugees and migration issues are of an interstate and international nature. It is generally recognized that they can be solved only by involving both national and international effort. An integral part of such effort is regional and transboundary cooperation of the states. The UNHCR organized a seminar for the personnel of central and regional migration and customs services of five neighbouring states — the Republic of Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine with the aim of encouragement of the solution of refugees and illegal migration issues in the East European region. The article presents the modern situation of the refugee and illegal migration issues both in the region and in each of the neighbouring states based on the recent data cited in the reports of the speakers from the five countries, the International Organization for Migration and the Swedish migration service. It analyses the state of national legislation on refugees and migrants in the neighbouring states and the specifics of its application, the established structures, institutions for work with migrants; the measures, methods and approaches of each country in their work with refugees and illegal migrants, the peculiarities of consideration of migrants' cases and cases relating to persons seeking asylum. It reflects not only the state legislative measures of responding to the problem but also critical issues that personnel of executive migration service divisions and border guards face daily in their work. The article analyses most complex aspects of the refugees and migration issues that these countries have in common and which require concerted action of the countries of the region and international organizations in order to counteract negative trends in the sphere of illegal migration.