Entrepreneurship ecosystem facets: the European migrant crisis and public opinion in Slovakia

Marcel Lincényi,Manuela Tvaronavičienė

doi:10.9770/jesi.2017.5.2(14)

Abstract

The research study offers an analysis of the current Slovak public opinion on the issue of migration in the context of the current refugee crisis, while also offering prevailing opinions, attitudes, preferences and values of the Slovaks to the possible arrival of asylum seekers in Slovakia. The study also provides the Slovak citizens' opinions on possible solutions to the refugee crisis. From realized analysis public opinion of the citizens has emerged with serious stance on the issue of migration. It should be noted that a similar approach is also seen in other countries of the Visegrad Group. We think that improving public opinion on citizens' attitudes regarding migration would demand the politicians an educating campaign not only in Slovakia but across the whole European Union. The European Commission may need to promote multicultural education.

Highlights

Since 2013, the European migration and asylum regime has entered a phase of crisis, which reveals the deep interdependencies between its different components and the unbalanced nature of its normative foundations
As it has been clear from research studies that was implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Bratislava within the project Migration in the Slovak Republic to the EU (2004 - 2008), foreigners living in Slovakia have perceived stereotype attitudes towards them which are based on rigid and hardly changing prejudices against otherness
7.6% of all respondents believe that refugees can contribute to Slovakia

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Since 2013, the European migration and asylum regime has entered a phase of crisis, which reveals the deep interdependencies between its different components (including intra-EU mobility) and the unbalanced nature of its normative foundations. This original structural fragility had not fundamentally compromised the overall functioning of the regime until two major exogenous factors (the economic crisis, with its asymmetrical impact on the eurozone, and the wave of political instability and conflicts on the southern shore of the Mediterranean) brought its intrinsic limits to the point of rupture (Pastore, Henry, 2016, 44-57). This was followed by adoption of the second implementation package of the Agenda and initiation of EU-Turkey Joint Action Plan on migration management (Ineli-Ciger, Meltem, 2016, 133)

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