EU Searching for Gatekeepers: Lebanon in European Externalized Migration Management

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Published: Jun 29, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/hapscpbs.31007
Keywords:
Lebanon European Union refugee crisis Externalization of migration EU-Lebanon Compact Migration Policy resilience Non-policy Policy
Angeliki Anna Andreou
University of Piraeus
Abstract

Today 1 per 5 people in Lebanon is a Syrian refugee. Lebanon, largely impacted by the Syrian-refugee crisis, followed a “non-policy” and later confining policy for refugees-management. Based on the EU Global Strategy of 2016, migration is identified as principal threat for European security. Recently, EU has exerted its external migration governance in refugee-hosting countries like Lebanon. Having the Union implemented a resilience-building approach, which ended up ignoring the Lebanese system’s structural deficiencies and not accomplishing the desired outcomes, this Policy Brief recommends:



  • Establishment of legal binding EU-Lebanon refugee governance agreement

  • Further EIDHR funding conditional to human rights and good governance alignment

  • Incentives to Lebanese private sector for refugees’ recruitment

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Author Biography
Angeliki Anna Andreou, University of Piraeus

Studies at the Department of International and European Studies, University of Piraeus, Greece.

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