The first issue of the Academic Bulletin “Refugees: today and tomorrow” for 2022 brings together three major
and significant topics, both for Bulgaria and globally. On the one hand, it provides an overview of what
happened in Bulgaria in 2021 regarding the international protection procedures in the country and challenges
of integration of those granted refugee or humanitarian protection statuses, the article is based on the results
of the UNHCR AGD Survey conducted in 2021. On the other hand, the outbreak of war in Ukraine on 24
February 2022 and the millions of people who have already left for different European countries provoked us
to slow down the issue, but to collect several pieces, without pretending to be exhaustive, in which to present
the first solidarity initiatives, in general the reaction of the Bulgarian society, government and civic sector
supporting the Ukrainian refugees in Bulgaria. The third major aspect is what is happening to refugees globally,
when at the beginning of the twenty-first century there are 23 active conflicts in the world, what is the role
of UNHCR in different places, what is the core philosophy of the Global Compact for Refugees. About all this
and other topics you could learn in the interview with Mr. Narasimha Rao Nilagiri Lakshmi, UNHCR
Representative in Bulgaria since 2020. We also turn our attention to the now forgotten crisis in Afghanistan
and its impact on refugee administrative and judicial practice in Bulgaria with the text of the lawyer Todor
Iliev in our Legal Consultant rubric. Last but not least, we would like to highlight the importance of the topic
of new technologies in the field of migration, which you will learn about from three studies of the Center for
the Study of Democracy. In the Academic Horizons section, we have also included information on several
summer schools in the field of migration and refugees forthcoming this summer.
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