Originally Posted by
GUWonder
If someone is entitled to refugee status, then it's more complicated; but resettlement/sojourn as a refugee must ordinarily be voluntarily agreed to on the part of the refugee and cannot be legally compelled absent the refugee's voluntary agreement; and the hosting/transited state during a sojourn is supposed to ordinarily allow refugees to both seek refuge where they wish to in the territory hosting them and to ordinarily allow them to seek admission into another country that will admit them. This is where the contracted states tend to play their games to minimize the intake of people entitled to refugee protections: frustrating their travels and freedom of movement by way of other agreements and practices.
I'm not following you. The
Dublin Regulation plainly states:
Under the Dublin Regulation, an asylum seeker has to apply for asylum in the first EU country they entered, and, if they cross borders to another country after being fingerprinted, they can be returned to the former. During the 2015 European refugee and migrant crisis, Hungary became overburdened by asylum applications to the point that it stopped on 23 June 2015 receiving back its applicants who later crossed the borders to other EU countries and were detained there.[24] On 24 August 2015, Germany decided to suspend the Dublin Regulation as regards Syrian refugees and to process their asylum applications directly itself.[25] On 2 September 2015, the Czech Republic also decided to defy the Dublin Regulation and to offer Syrian refugees who have already applied for asylum in other EU countries and who reach the country to either have their application processed in the Czech Republic (i.e. get asylum there) or to continue their journey elsewhere.[26] Other member states such as Hungary, Slovakia and Poland officially stated their denial to any possible revision or enlargement of the Dublin Regulation, specifically referring to the eventual introduction of new mandatory or permanent quotas for solidarity measures.[27]
And a quote from
"Asylum Shopping:"
One of the objectives of Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters is to prevent asylum shopping.[2] The Dublin Convention stipulates that an asylum seeker is returned to the country where he or she first entered the European Union. Another objective of this policy is to prevent asylum seeker in orbit, where an asylum seeker is transferred between states, none of which is willing to accept the application.[3]
To avoid abuses, European law, the Dublin Regulation, requires that asylum seekers register their asylum claim in the first country they arrive in, and that the decision of the first EU country they apply in, is the final decision in all EU countries. However, among some asylum seekers, the fingerprinting and registration is vehemently resisted in countries that are not considered asylum-seeker friendly, as they often wish to apply for asylum in Germany and Sweden where benefits are more generous.[4]
Bolding mine. Can you extrapolate on this disparity?