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Rescued male migrants are brought to southern Italian ports, 28 June 2015. Immigration to Europe has a long history, but increased substantially after World War II. Western European countries, especially, saw high growth in immigration post 1945, and many European nations today (particularly those of the EU-15) have sizeable immigrant populations, both of European and non-European origin.
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 ...
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]
Central and eastern European countries are home to a large proportion of more than 4.3 million Ukrainians who fled to the EU in the wake of Russia's invasion and have filled jobs amid historically ...
Interior ministers from six European Union countries on Monday said their nations had agreed to step up efforts to protect the bloc from illegal immigration and target groups of human smugglers ...
Immigrants by country of origin as of 2023. Italy is home to a large population of migrants from Eastern Europe and North Africa. Senegalese workers at the Potato festival in Vimercate in 2015 data analysis of foreign people who live in Italy since 2022 Foreign citizens in Italy - 2022
[97] [98] European officials blamed Belarusian travel agencies for helping illegal migrants. [ 49 ] [ 98 ] The majority of migrants were from Iraq, but citizens of other Middle Eastern and African countries were also among them. [ 49 ]
There was also challenges to the European borders which came from the Mediterranean Sea; as a response the European Border and Coast Guard Agency engaged in a new operation called Operation Triton. Politically there was a debate on limiting refugee admittance and a general debate regarding the integrity of borders and illegal actions.