Dublin is over: the rise of Europe’s new migrant prisons | openDemocracy
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The principle of the agreement, which has dominated European migration policy for almost 20 years, is that whoever wants to claim asylum within the EU must do so at the country of their first arrival and identification. Instead, the EU has finally pushed through a quota system.
There are many, many failings of this system. But what has apparently finally broken it is the determination of hundreds of thousands of people consistently entering the borders, in increasing numbers since the world events unfolding from the global financial crash and the Arab Spring. This has meant that only a few EU states are responsible for vast numbers of people, in the very countries hit the hardest by the financial crash and the EU’s own inequity.