{"id":2831,"date":"2015-09-07T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thediplomaticenvoy.com\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:09:50","slug":"refugees-not-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2015\/09\/07\/refugees-not-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"UNHCR to EU: Refugees, Not Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Cynthia Sularz<\/a>
\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

July marked the height of the refugee crisis taking place in the European Union. In that month alone,\u00a0107,500 refugees reached Europe’s\u00a0borders. Although often referred to as a \u201cmigrant crisis,\u201d the situation could be\u00a0more accurately described as a refugee<\/em> crisis.<\/p>\n

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees stated, \u201cConflating refugees and migrants can have serious consequences for the lives and safety of refugees.” Referring to these individuals as “migrants” dismisses their original reason for emigrating, and takes away the legal protection afforded\u00a0by refugee status.<\/p>\n

The refugee situation is marked not only by a rise in violence and crime, as refugees suffer\u00a0mistreatment at the hands of\u00a0smugglers, but also by mass discrimination\u00a0in Europe.<\/p>\n

On August 31, about 200 refugees\u00a0were recovered from a series of vehicles in Austria. This incident follows an investigation launched after the discovery of a truck filled with 71 dead and mutilated bodies. Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner commented on the increase in security checks, “We are seeing that the smuggler gangs are acting in ever more brutal and ruthless ways and we must counter them with stronger and harder measures.”<\/p>\n

These checks have been instituted in\u00a0Austria, Hungary, and other EU\u00a0nations as the number of refugees seeking asylum continues to grow. However, many criticize these border checks, claiming that they violate the EU’s Schengen information system (SIS). The SIS is a intergovernmental database that grants passage for travelers within the Schengen Area without having to show documentation at borders. While there are some EU\u00a0nations that run their own\u00a0national database on travelers, Austria is\u00a0not among them.<\/p>\n

Helmut Marban, spokesman of Austria\u2019s Burgenland state, which borders Hungary,\u00a0said\u00a0that these checks are not meant as border control, which violates Schengen law, but rather, ensure that police can take action against human trafficking. Marban\u00a0also stated\u00a0that the checks have been approved by Austria\u2019s neighbors:\u00a0Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia.<\/p>\n

Growing political strife has accumulated across the European Union. On August 26, Chancellor Angela Merkel was booed while speaking at\u00a0a refugee center in Eastern Germany. The heckling\u00a0resulted\u00a0from\u00a0Merkel’s statement that there would be no tolerance for \u201cthose who question the dignity of other human beings.\u201d Since the end of World War II, Germany has dealt with the\u00a0far right advocating for the deportation of Turkish migrant workers who immigrated to help rebuild the divided nation. As the refugee\u00a0crisis escalates, political protests are increasing\u00a0against all migrants and refugees entering Germany.<\/p>\n

The crisis has also been marked in recent weeks\u00a0by the sinking of two boats in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya. It is estimated that as many as 500 refugees were aboard\u00a0the\u00a0boats. The United Nations estimates that more than 300,000 migrants and refugees have attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees stated, \u201cConflating refugees and migrants can have serious consequences for the lives and safety of refugees.” Referring to these individuals as “migrants” dismisses their original reason for emigrating, and takes away the legal protection afforded by refugee status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,387],"tags":[493,494,495,499],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-europe","tag-migrants","tag-refugees","tag-eu","tag-immigration"],"yoast_head":"\nUNHCR to EU: Refugees, Not Migrants - The Diplomatic Envoy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2015\/09\/07\/refugees-not-migrants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UNHCR to EU: Refugees, Not Migrants - The Diplomatic Envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees stated, \u201cConflating refugees and migrants can have serious consequences for the lives and safety of refugees." 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