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In the course of the 2015 European migrant crisis, the debate about immigration, refugee and asylum policy, the integration of refugees and migrants in general and the prospect of staying for people with unclear or temporary residency rights have become more of a focus of public attention. [2]
Compared to refugee crisis (refugee is a refugee), migrant crises also have a separate or distinguish between the “deserving” refugee from the “undeserving” migrant and play into fear of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference in the midst of increasing intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations and ...
By ALBERTO ARCE and MARCOS ALEMAN SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by ...
Between the Crimean War of 1853–56 and World War I, at least 2.5 million Muslims arrived in the Ottoman Empire as refugees, primarily from Russia and the Balkans. [14] The Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 caused 800,000 people to leave their homes. [15] Various groups of people were officially designated refugees beginning in World War I.
Temporary migrants intend only to stay for limited periods of time, perhaps until the end of a particular program of study or for the duration of a their work contract or a certain work season. [4] Both types of migrants have a significant effect on the economies and societies of the chosen destination country and the country of origin.
The 2015 European migrant crisis was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and migrants into Europe, namely from the Middle East.An estimated 1.3 million people came to the continent to request asylum, [2] the most in a single year since World War II. [3]
The International Organization for Migration has stated that refugee migration into Algeria has markedly increased since 2014, with most refugees arriving from Niger. [53] According to the Associated Press over 14,000 refugees were expelled from Algeria between August 2017 and June 2018, with refugees forced to walk on foot through the Sahara ...
In 1979, ACNS joined with the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR) to publish the World Refugee Survey, an annual publication that provided a comprehensive review of global trends related to refugees and feature articles on national and global issues, specific countries, global aggregate and country statistics, and analyses of root causes and ...