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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]
Moria Refugee Camp is Europe's largest refugee camp and is located on Lesvos Island, Greece. Moria Refugee Camp was originally designed for 3,500 people, however it currently holds more than 20,000 people. [22] Moria Refugee Camp is considered by many in the international community as an unsafe environment for women and children.
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.
More than 2 million people had fled Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion in what could soon become Europe’s biggest refugee crisis of the 21st century.
Austria also said it would look at deporting people back to Syria. It was a sudden response that those governments said was necessary to take stock of a rapidly changing situation in the country.
In the 1990s, refugees from the Yugoslav Wars sought asylum in Europe in large numbers. [99] In the 2010s, millions fled to Europe from wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. More than 34,000 migrants and refugees have died trying to get to Europe since 1993, most often due to capsizing while trying to cross the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. [100]
Around November 2015, some European countries restricted family reunions for refugees, and started campaigns to dissuade people worldwide to migrate to Europe. EU leaders also quietly encouraged Balkan governments to only allow nationals from the most war-torn countries (Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq) to pass into the EU.
[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.