The Uncertain Role of the EU Countries in the Syrian Refugee Crisis analysis

This article is a great article because it illuminates the competing issues within the EU construct that aid in the dysfunction of the current Syrian Refugee crisis. When distributing refugees within the EU, having a policy that hurts boarder nations was perhaps the biggest mistake for several reasons. First, the southern boarder nations of Greece, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, are not the economic powerhouses of the EU. Thus, housing and finding room to find work for Syrian refugees is problematic. Moreover, they are not the largest nations by population within the EU. Furthermore, the bordering nations are more susceptible to problematic refugees than inner EU nations because the inability to vet thoroughly. Inner nations possessing the power to send unwarranted refugees back to "first arrival"EU nations (border nations) help to stoke resentment, islamaphobia, and general anti immigrant sentiments throughout EU nations that have limited resources, smaller populations, and geographically on the border. Arguably, refugees independent of belief or cultural practices, were already diagnosed as scapegoats in some EU nations because of the failed policy structure to handle the Syrian refugee crises within the EU.