Migration and International Mobility
Since the outbreak of the so-called Arab Spring, the European media and political leaders displayed a growing concern about the impact of the political developments in the MENA region on the migration flows. Without taking into account the sensation-seeking attitude of some media and politicians, there is evidence that migration played a key role in the protests that sparked across the region. Nonetheless, those migration trends are not an exclusive outcome of the massive protests in the region: they had existed a long time before 2011 and need to be analyzed in a wider perspective. Hence the need to research these issues in a broader perspective.
Since the outbreak of the so-called Arab Spring, the European media and political leaders displayed a growing concern about the impact of the political developments in the MENA region on the migration flows. Without taking into account the sensation-seeking attitude of some media and politicians, there is evidence that migration played a key role in the protests that sparked across the region. Nonetheless, those migration trends are not an exclusive outcome of the massive protests in the region: they had existed a long time before 2011 and need to be analyzed in a wider perspective. Hence the need to research these issues in a broader perspective.
