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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.
Croatia’s Brush With Looming Security Crisis In Europe (2015-06-21). Retrieved on 2015-09-05. Lucie Bednárová, Fernando Heller, Andrei Schwartz, Angela Lamboglia, Aline Robert, Daniel Tost, Georgi Gotev, Eliška Kubátová, Martina Dupáková, Krzysztof Kokoszczyński (2015-06-08). Many EU countries say “no” to immigration quotas.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 affirmed the national origins quota system of 1924 and limited total annual immigration to one sixth of one percent of the population of the continental United States in 1920, or 175,455. It exempted the spouses and children of U.S. citizens and people born in the Western Hemisphere from the quota.
Effective December 1, 1965, during a transition period covering fiscal years ending June 30 of 1966–1968, national quotas continued, but any unused quota spots were pooled and made available to other countries that had exhausted their quota, on a first-come, first-served basis. [48]
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]
Skirmishes between European countries are becoming more common across the continent, where an increase in “irregular” migrants — as those who’ve entered illegally are called here — is ...
The 1882, Chinese Exclusion Act meanwhile suppressed immigration from East Asia, while the Emergency Quota Act, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924, restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe. [107] German immigrant family in the United States, 1930 Cesar Chavez speaking at a 1974 United Farm Workers rally in California. The ...
After World War II, emigration restrictions were imposed by countries in the Eastern Bloc, which consisted of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. Legal emigration was in most cases only possible to reunite families or to allow members of minority ethnic groups to return to their homelands.