By Alexandra Esmel Europe is facing one of its largest refugee crisis since the end of the Second Word War. Violent conflicts in the Middle East (mostly from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan) and in Sub-Saharan Africa (mostly from Eritrea, Somalia) have generated the flight of thousands of men, women and children from war zones, persecutions and/or extreme … Read more
By the end of July 2015, more than 124,000 refugees and migrants had arrived in Greece; an astonishing 750% increase in the amount of refugees and migrants from the same time the previous year. The vast majority of these refugees are those feeing conflict and human rights violations in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq in wake … Read more
The migrant crisis is forcing tensions between the free-movement created by the Schengen Agreement and notions of state sovereignty. The crisis has brought into questions of European solidarity as countries force migrants from one country to the next. In practice the EU’s Dublin Regulation, which requires that a migrant’s asylum claim be processed in the European country … Read more
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