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Immigrants crisis
The European migrant crisis or European refugee crisis began in 2015, when a rising number of refugees and migrants began to make the journey to the European Union to seek asylum,travelling across the Mediterranean Sea, or through Southeast Europe. They come from Syria, Iraq, Eritrea, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, the Gambia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh), and Serbia, Kosovo and Albania. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as of December 2015, the top three nationalities of the almost one million Mediterranean Sea arrivals since the beginning of the year are Syrian (50%), Afghan (20%) and Iraqi (7%). The phrases of “European migrant crisis” and “European refugee crisis” widely used in April 2015, when five boats carrying almost 2,000 migrants to Europe sank in the Mediterranean Sea, with a combined death toll estimated at more than 1,200 people. The full horror of the human tragedy unfolding on the shores of Europe was brought home as images of the lifeless body of a young boy – one of at least 12 Syrians who drowned attempting to reach the Greek island of Kos – encapsulated the extraordinary risks refugees are taking to reach the west. The picture depicted the dark-haired toddler, wearing a bright-red T-shirt and shorts, washed up on a beach, lying face down in the surf not far from Turkey’s fashionable resort town of Bodrum. Turkish media identified the boy as three-year-old Aylan Kurdi and reported that his five-year-old brother had also met a similar death. Both had reportedly hailed from the northern Syrian town of Kobani, the site of fierce fighting between Islamic state insurgents and Kurdish forces earlier this year.
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