Focus on European Refugee Crisis

The ongoing European Migrant Crisis involves people from Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East, coming to countries in Europe.

The European migrant crisis or European refugee crisis arose through the rising number of refugees and migrants coming to the European Union, across the Mediterranean Sea or Southeast Europe, and applying for asylum. They come from areas such as the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Yemen), Africa (Eritrea, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Gambia), the Western Balkans (Kosovo, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia) and other parts of Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh). According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as of early September 2015, 71% of the Mediterranean Sea arrivals are refugees coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea. ~ Wikipedia

Resources

• A guide to the worst refugee crisis since WWII
• Syria’s climate-fueled conflict, in one stunning comic strip

News - September 20, 2015

• Refugee crisis intensifies as thousands pour into Austria
• Over 9000 Refugees Enter Austria After Hungary Sends Them Away
• Fortress Europe: Tear Gas on the Hungarian Border
• Seven key proposals to ease the Syrian refugee crisis
• 'Everyone wants to leave': death of hope drives young Syrians to Europe

Analysis / Opinion

• Refugee crisis was caused by a careless West that allowed chaos and fear to take root in the Middle East
• Reasons for Refugees: Hypocrisy in Merkel’s Germany
• Calling Bullshit on the Anti-Refugee Memes Flooding the Internet
• The Iraq war: The root of Europe's refugee crisis
• World Must Avert Devastating Flood of Climate Refugees
• Junk the international refugee system, and open the borders