Published: 2020-01-30

Frontex activities on the Western Balkan route during the migrant crisis (2015-…)

Patryk Bukowski
Polish Review of International and European Law
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.21697/priel.2019.8.2.04

Abstract

According to the title, the subject of this article is the activity of Frontex (European Border and Coast Guard Agency) on the Western Balkan route during the migrant crisis, the escalation of which took place in mid-2015. The main part of the text has been divided into four parts. In the first part of the article, the author briefly described the genesis of Frontex and its current activity in the normative perspective. In the second part, the author characterised the determinants of the migrant crisis, focusing on the challenges for the European Union which the crisis generated. In the third part, the author described the course of the Western Balkan route and analysed statistical data on the population migrating that route. In the fourth and last part, the author analysed Frontex’s activity on the Western Balkan route, describing the determinants of the actions taken.

Keywords:

Frontex, migrant crisis, Western Balkan route

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Bukowski, P. . (2020). Frontex activities on the Western Balkan route during the migrant crisis (2015-…). Polish Review of International and European Law, 8(2), 97–111. https://doi.org/10.21697/priel.2019.8.2.04

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