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According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, "[b]etween 2003 and 2004, the number of (Venezuelan) refugees doubled from 598 to 1,256, and between 2004 and 2009, the number of Venezuelan refugees was five-fold higher, up to 6,221. By that date, there is also a log of 1,580 Venezuelan applicants for refuge."
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]
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 ...
Five political asylum seekers – all members of the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s team – have been sheltering in the Argentine embassy for more than nine months.
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.
Weather. 24/7 Help. ... the Venezuelan refugees were given a helping hand. ... which reportedly received an influx of more than 5,000 undocumented immigrants from Texas during the month of December.
What factors have compelled millions of Venezuelans to leave their homeland and seek refugee status in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S.?
In the 1990s, refugees from the Yugoslav Wars sought asylum in Europe in large numbers. [97] 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. [98]