Essay On Asylum Seekers

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The current refugee crisis is accelerating every day more and more, with countries such as Syria still being at civil war. It is one of the most basic principles of the EU to provide these asylum seekers with the possibility to seek asylum in its territory. As it has become clear from the chapters above, the Dublin system does not work as well as it was wanted to. The border countries of the EU bear most of the responsibility over the asylum seekers as other Member States are left with only a handful of refugees; asylum seekers apply asylum in another Member State than in the one they have been assigned to; and the rights of refugees continue to be at jeopardy even after they have successfully fled from the armed conflict, civil war or oppression and sought asylum inside the borders of the EU. In order to have asylum seekers’ human rights in line with international standards, there must be fair and efficient system that distributes the responsibility between the Member States of the EU. This was the purpose and aim of the Dublin system, but, unfortunately, it has not been achieved, not even with the …show more content…

If not else, asylum seekers who actually can make journey as far from their country of origin as to the Member States in the other end of the EU territory, raise another fundamental consideration; can these people really be in need of asylum? Of course, it should not either be presumed that all in the need of asylum are impoverished, but it often is the case. There can also be asylum seekers who are not lacking sufficient money in their country of origin but are in some other way not able to live without fearing for their lives, such as could be in a case where their sexuality was being valued as “wrong” on the grounds of

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