Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2015 of countries, and recognition of refugee status is carried out by exercising the national, mostly constitutional right and through discretionary authorizations of competent bodies, who can only recognize this status to a person after having conducted a relevant procedure. This kind of approach leads to the use of different terms for persons moving along the current Balkan route. With regard to the procedure of recognizing one’s refugee status, which begins with his or her expression of intention to seek international protection, one has to differentiate between applicants for international protection/asylum and an asylee and the person who has been granted subsidiary protection. At arriving at the border or territory of another country, a refugee may seek international protection, which will make him/her an applicant for international protection in the eyes of the state bodies In 2015, only the citizens of Syria, of the country where he/she currently is. An applicant for Afghanistan and Iraq were international protection has certain rights, one of the considered to come from warmost significant being the right to stay there during the stricken and unsafe countries, and procedure. After recognition of the right to international considering the fact that 93.4% of protection, the status of asylee is recognized to the persons who entered the Republic person who fulfils the criteria listed in the definition of a of Croatia via the Balkan route refugee, and this includes the maximum scope of rights were citizens of precisely those countries, it is certainly safe to say that the receiving country can grant, while subsidiary that Croatia faced a refugee crisis. protection implies a smaller scope of rights, mostly pertaining to stay in the relevant country and to identification documents. Therefore, asylum includes the complete protection that a country provides to refugees. In this sense, the modern-day migration movements are complex, with persons moving within mixed migration routes and leaving the countries of their origin for various reasons. One of the common reasons is the desire to improve one’s financial status. Economic migrants often move along the same migration routes as the refugees, but unlike them, they enjoy the protection of their country and they can return to it safely if they wish to do so. By crossing the state border without a proper travel document and/or visa, an economic migrant becomes an irregular migrant and is unable to obtain a legal status in the country of entry. All persons involved in migrations can seek international protection and thus change roles along their route, depending on the outcome of the procedure. In the international and European political context in 2015, only the citizens of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq were considered to come from war-stricken and unsafe countries. Considering the fact that 93.4% of persons who entered the Republic of Croatia via the Balkan route were citizens of precisely those countries, it is certainly safe to say that Croatia faced a refugee crisis. Regardless of that, even the citizens of other countries who were part of migration movements also had to be provided with access to not only international protection, but also to all other required humanitarian aid and protection of dignity. 38