while thousands of migrants continue to
make the arduous journey to Europe the
European Union must come up with a
concrete plan to stop the loss of life
welcome to watchmojo.com nth we’re
updating our initial WatchMojo news
piece with five new facts you should
know about the ongoing 2015 zu migrant
crisis for more background information
and an introduction to this issue please
check out part 1 by clicking the link
below number five who is making the
journey for several years thousands of
men and women have been making the
arduous trek from the north of Africa to
Europe in the hopes of attaining a
better quality of life historically a
large majority of migrants were from
Syria Eritrea Mali Nigeria and Gambia
with an overwhelming proportion of those
being male this trend has continued in
Syria due to the ongoing and deadly
civil conflict beginning with the 2011
Arab Spring protests that have led to
the deaths of hundreds of thousands of
people and the displacement of at least
a third of the country’s population
between January and August 2015 over
350,000 migrants were detected at the
European Union borders as opposed to
280,000 in all of 2014
number 4 where are the migrants going
under EU law the Dublin regulation
requires that all refugees who have
filed for asylum must remain in the
country where they have filed until the
application is processed illegally
crossing into another country would
result in the refugee being sent back to
the original nation this law therefore
placed a heavy burden on countries
nearest to those fleeing like Italy
Spain and Greece to address this
situation Germany decided to suspend the
regulation for Syrian asylum seekers at
the end of August 2015
this move was especially significant
given the fact that Germany received the
majority of asylum requests with over
188,000 coming in by the end of July
2015 at that point
Germany estimated that by the end of the
year the country would receive over
800,000 asylum applications this crisis
led many critics to wonder whether
Europe should shoulder the
responsibility for the migrants alone or
whether Western countries and the Gulf
states should share accountability in an
example of an extreme stance prime
minister of Hungary Viktor Orban was
accused of articulating anti-immigrant
rhetoric when he raised questions about
what an influx of mainly Muslim migrants
would do to primarily Christian Europe
in an effort to accept some of the
duties countries like the United States
did pledge support and technical
expertise by sending its Coast Guard and
financial aid to assist the ongoing
humanitarian crisis number three our
Gulf states helping there was harsh
criticism aimed at the majority of the
Gulf states particularly Saudi Arabia
Bahrain Kuwait Qatar Oman and the United
Arab Emirates which staunchly refused to
open their borders to the Syrian
population Gulf nations are primarily
populated by contracted workers who
return to their home countries once
their work contracts are finished for
example only roughly 10% of the
populations of Qatar and the UAE are
actually citizens of those countries the
rest are mainly transient workers these
nations believe they must keep a
delicate balance in terms of
demographics and an influx of refugees
would upset that this is in stark
contrast to the policy of neighboring
country Lebanon which is led in over 1.5
million Syrian refugees since the Syrian
crisis began in 2011 however Gulf states
have not completely abandoned their
neighbors as they’ve provided nearly 900
million dollars through charities and
private contributions
number two what is the current death
toll the United Nations has described
the crisis in the Mediterranean Sea as a
quote tragedy of epic proportions
according to the International
Organization for Migration from January
to April 2015 the refugee death toll was
18 times higher than it was during the
same period of the previous year as of
September 2015 the death toll from the
migrant crisis had reached upwards of
2,600 among the dead were 71
unidentified refugees that were found
inside an abandoned truck on an Austrian
motorway at the end of August the crisis
was further highlighted when a picture
of a three year old Syrian boy Alan
Kurdi surfaced showing the child’s
drowned and lifeless body lying in the
sand at a beach resort in Bodrum Turkey
the photo and his story quickly went
viral on social media prompting
worldwide sympathy and widespread
condemnation of EU officials handling of
the migrant crisis number one what is
the proposed solution though efforts
have been made to harmonize the laws
across the European Union the region has
struggled with its Asylum policy as many
member states have their own regulations
due to the increasing number of migrants
arriving at the borders of EU countries
the leaders of the EU called an
emergency meeting for September 14th
2015
those talks were expected to touch on
the issue of quotas with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel for example
insisting that a quota was the solution
needed to divide the number of refugees
equally among the member countries
however since many Central European
countries and Europeans in general
strongly opposed the quota plan due to a
lack of the resources necessary to take
in such a large number of migrants those
talks are likely to be heated did these
facts make you think to vote for which
news story is covered next
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make the arduous journey to Europe the
European Union must come up with a
concrete plan to stop the loss of life
welcome to watchmojo.com nth we’re
updating our initial WatchMojo news
piece with five new facts you should
know about the ongoing 2015 zu migrant
crisis for more background information
and an introduction to this issue please
check out part 1 by clicking the link
below number five who is making the
journey for several years thousands of
men and women have been making the
arduous trek from the north of Africa to
Europe in the hopes of attaining a
better quality of life historically a
large majority of migrants were from
Syria Eritrea Mali Nigeria and Gambia
with an overwhelming proportion of those
being male this trend has continued in
Syria due to the ongoing and deadly
civil conflict beginning with the 2011
Arab Spring protests that have led to
the deaths of hundreds of thousands of
people and the displacement of at least
a third of the country’s population
between January and August 2015 over
350,000 migrants were detected at the
European Union borders as opposed to
280,000 in all of 2014
number 4 where are the migrants going
under EU law the Dublin regulation
requires that all refugees who have
filed for asylum must remain in the
country where they have filed until the
application is processed illegally
crossing into another country would
result in the refugee being sent back to
the original nation this law therefore
placed a heavy burden on countries
nearest to those fleeing like Italy
Spain and Greece to address this
situation Germany decided to suspend the
regulation for Syrian asylum seekers at
the end of August 2015
this move was especially significant
given the fact that Germany received the
majority of asylum requests with over
188,000 coming in by the end of July
2015 at that point
Germany estimated that by the end of the
year the country would receive over
800,000 asylum applications this crisis
led many critics to wonder whether
Europe should shoulder the
responsibility for the migrants alone or
whether Western countries and the Gulf
states should share accountability in an
example of an extreme stance prime
minister of Hungary Viktor Orban was
accused of articulating anti-immigrant
rhetoric when he raised questions about
what an influx of mainly Muslim migrants
would do to primarily Christian Europe
in an effort to accept some of the
duties countries like the United States
did pledge support and technical
expertise by sending its Coast Guard and
financial aid to assist the ongoing
humanitarian crisis number three our
Gulf states helping there was harsh
criticism aimed at the majority of the
Gulf states particularly Saudi Arabia
Bahrain Kuwait Qatar Oman and the United
Arab Emirates which staunchly refused to
open their borders to the Syrian
population Gulf nations are primarily
populated by contracted workers who
return to their home countries once
their work contracts are finished for
example only roughly 10% of the
populations of Qatar and the UAE are
actually citizens of those countries the
rest are mainly transient workers these
nations believe they must keep a
delicate balance in terms of
demographics and an influx of refugees
would upset that this is in stark
contrast to the policy of neighboring
country Lebanon which is led in over 1.5
million Syrian refugees since the Syrian
crisis began in 2011 however Gulf states
have not completely abandoned their
neighbors as they’ve provided nearly 900
million dollars through charities and
private contributions
number two what is the current death
toll the United Nations has described
the crisis in the Mediterranean Sea as a
quote tragedy of epic proportions
according to the International
Organization for Migration from January
to April 2015 the refugee death toll was
18 times higher than it was during the
same period of the previous year as of
September 2015 the death toll from the
migrant crisis had reached upwards of
2,600 among the dead were 71
unidentified refugees that were found
inside an abandoned truck on an Austrian
motorway at the end of August the crisis
was further highlighted when a picture
of a three year old Syrian boy Alan
Kurdi surfaced showing the child’s
drowned and lifeless body lying in the
sand at a beach resort in Bodrum Turkey
the photo and his story quickly went
viral on social media prompting
worldwide sympathy and widespread
condemnation of EU officials handling of
the migrant crisis number one what is
the proposed solution though efforts
have been made to harmonize the laws
across the European Union the region has
struggled with its Asylum policy as many
member states have their own regulations
due to the increasing number of migrants
arriving at the borders of EU countries
the leaders of the EU called an
emergency meeting for September 14th
2015
those talks were expected to touch on
the issue of quotas with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel for example
insisting that a quota was the solution
needed to divide the number of refugees
equally among the member countries
however since many Central European
countries and Europeans in general
strongly opposed the quota plan due to a
lack of the resources necessary to take
in such a large number of migrants those
talks are likely to be heated did these
facts make you think to vote for which
news story is covered next
head over to watchmojo.com / suggest and
be sure to hit that subscribe button for
more newsworthy top 10s published every
week
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