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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 Voice of Young Refugees in Europe [110] provide a support and educational network for young refugees. Many refugees arrive in Europe with a great diversity of skills, experience and specialisations that could make tangible contributions to the EU workforce.
[7] [8] The invasion caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II and its aftermath, [9] is the first of its kind in Europe since the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, as well as the fourth largest refugee crisis in history, [10] [11] and is the largest refugee crisis of the 21st century, with the highest refugee flight rate globally ...
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A map of the European migrant crisis in 2015. This is a timeline of the European migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016.. Against the backdrop of four years of Syrian civil war and political instability in other Middle Eastern countries, [1] there was a record number of 1.3 million people who lodged asylum applications to the European Union's 28 member nations, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 ...
Migrants based in Calais were attempting to enter the United Kingdom via the Port of Calais or the Channel Tunnel by stowing away on lorries, ferries, cars, or trains. [2] Some migrants were attempting to return to the United Kingdom having once lived there, [3] whilst others were attempting to enter the British labour market to find under-the-table work, which is more difficult in France.
The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley, 2017; Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, 2017; Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier, 2017; Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones, 2017
The list below includes the number of refugees per event with at least 1 million individuals included. This list does not include internally displaced persons (IDP). For events for which estimates vary, the geometric mean of the lowest and highest estimates is calculated to rank the events.