Managing State Border in the Context of Migration Crisis in Europe: Lithuanian Case

Abstract

The aim of this paper has been the achievement of the level of scientific knowledge on the subject of research in terms of establishment and analysis of economic effectiveness of state border governance in Lithuania in the context of increasing migration in European Union. The objective also has been to suggest the possible measures for improvement of state border management bearing in mind the migration perspectives. There is an unexpressed demand on migration (especially immigration) as an economic and social phenomenon to have some positive impact on the economy of target country. It's nevertheless true, that from political point of view the migration trends are usually being associated with the economic, social, security challenges in target countries. European Union countries which are the external borders of EU face with even more specific obstacles-the effective management of borders and necessity to bare costs of controlling migration flows. Therefore the effective use of economic and financial measures managing state borders is of the utmost importance reaching common goals of public security, stability, respect for European values and rule of law. The paper contains results of the analysis of international, regional and national legal acts and the secondary analysis of statistical data of European Union agencies and international organizations. The financial data of operational activities of Lithuanian State Border Guard Service is analysed, aiming to reveal the correlation between the effective management of state border control and financial support of the state and EU institutions.

Prospects of assessing the impact of external student migration on restoring country's intellectual potential (the case study of Ukraine)

“…As for Ukraine, the emigration in which is the subject of the study in this article, we revealed the corresponding reasons as well as their interrelation with socioeconomic basis of migration decisions in our preceding papers (Bilan, 2017;Mishchuk & Grishnova, 2015;Mishchuk et al 2018) and some other researches (Cohen, 2017;D'Silva & Samah, 2018;Holovatyi, 2014;Máté et al, 2018). At the same time, Ukrainian scientists, like their European counterparts who are studying the problem of brain gain in favour of more developed countries, for instance (Grenčíková et al 2017), are trying to find a common solution for all source countries in order to transform the process of intellectual migratory losses into the brain circulation and justify the policy measures that can enforce the benefits of circulation of knowledge and skills (Bilan & Bilan, 2011;Puraite et al, 2017;Sadova, 2010;Semiv & Hvozdovych, 2012;Stakanov, 2018).…”

Economic impact of organised crime to state security

“…It's nevertheless true, that from a political point of view the migration trends are usually being associated with the economic, social, security challenges in target countries. Illegal migration usually faces security, regulatory, human rights protection issues, as well as economic, financial and social challenges to destination States [38]. In case migration is legal, it could have a huge positive impact on accepting the state's economy.…”

Legal and socio-economic problems that arise during the detection of signs of violations of customs rules, and identifying property which has no owner or owner who is unknown by border and fi scal authorities

“…Th is study is also relevant in terms of developing a better mechanism for cooperation between border and fi scal units in other countries, as was noted Aurelija Pūraitė, the European Union is currently facing a number of problems related to eff ective border management, the need for appropriate economic and fi nancial measures and control of migration fl ows, which is crucial for achieving the common goals of public security, stability, respect for European values and the rule of law (Aurelija Pūraitė, 2017).…”