Where Else In the World are Refugees Coming From?
By: Tristin
What is a Refugee?
“A refugee is a person who has fled their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster”.
The current refugee crisis is worldwide, although the reportage has focused heavily on the refugees coming into Europe and especially on Syrian refugees. There are 21 million refugees currently all over the world this is a HUGE amount of people who have fled their home countries. Once a refugee has fled their home country they must also find somewhere they can live safely. The amount and severity of these refugees is unequalled compared to the amount of refugees in World War ll.
Below in the chart you can clearly see the amounts of refugees and migrants compared from 2014 to 2015 each month the number rising. 
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The Refugee Crisis
Globally there are 19 million refugees. When we talk about the global refugee crisis, we also talk about how nations fail refugees. Most refugees go through at least one of the four of the following steps, many all of them.
Step One:
Persecution: “hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs”.
Persecution causes people to flee their home. Political persecution internal war currently in Syria and in Afghanistan. There are also less known wars or conflicts in Somalia, Libya, Central America, Nigeria, and Pakistan etc.
Step Two:
Once refugees are forced from their homes they often end up in refugee camps. The camps are unsafe, crowded and have poor living conditions. Camps keep families stuck in limbo for generations.
Step Three:
Refugees often flee the camps and seek out safety in Europe. The journey is terrifying and dangerous. Families pay thousands of dollars to traffickers for boat trips to Europe. Many people die by drowning.
Retrieved from: https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/tag/malta/
Step Four:
Once refugees get off the boats in Europe they face squalid and overcrowded camps in Greece. The Greek population is hostile to the refugees and want them gone and resettled elsewhere. The refugees are afraid of being deported. The conditions in refugee camps in other locations are the same as they are in Greece.
The last step of the refugee crisis is not only funding, but also political issues between the EU countries. The countries have to reach an agreement as to how many refugees each country will take in. Until then the refugees will continue to suffer.
During 2014-15 there were approximately 32,000 people fleeing their countries of origin daily. Most of them come from Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan and Lebanon. More than half of the refugees are from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia.
In the past 33 years 2,56 million people fled Afghanistan. In 2013 alone 2,47 million fled from Syria and the number of refugees continue to grow. The refugees fleeing from Somali remain stable at approximately 1,1 million.
Where do Refugees Come From?
Afghanistan
|
2,556,522
|
Syria
|
2,468,341
|
Rest of the World
|
1,551,937
|
Somalia
|
1,121,692
|
Sudan
|
649,285
|
Congo DR
|
499,499
|
Myanmar
|
479,591
|
Iraq
|
401,362
|
Columbia
|
396,614
|
Vietnam
|
314,069
|
Eritrea
|
307,966
|
Central Africa
|
252,829
|
China
|
195,109
|
Mali
|
152,833
|
Sri Lanka
|
123,050
|
W Sahara
|
116,501
|
South Sudan
|
114,451
|
Where Are the Refugees Going?
Pakistan has 1,6 million refugees mostly from Afghanistan. For its population Lebanon has more refugees than any other country. Since 2011 Syrian refugees have been arriving in Lebanon in huge numbers. If we break down refugees coming into countries by continents Asia has 3,5 million, Middle East has 2,6 million, Europe has 1,8 million, and America has 800,000.
Countries Refugees are Living In
Rest of the World
|
1,640,615
|
South Sudan
|
229,587
|
Pakistan
|
1,616,495
|
Uganda
|
220,538
|
Iran
|
857,352
|
Venezuela
|
204,291
|
Lebanon
|
856,529
|
India
|
188,371
|
Jordan
|
641,894
|
Germany
|
187,505
|
Turkey
|
609,911
|
Canada
|
160,327
|
Kenya
|
534,920
|
Sudan
|
159,838
|
Chad
|
434,461
|
Syria
|
149,266
|
Ethiopia
|
433,923
|
Thailand
|
136,474
|
China
|
301,045
|
United Kingdom
|
125,991
|
USA
|
263,618
|
Ecuador
|
123,051
|
Iraq
|
246,294
|
Cameroon
|
114,729
|
Yemen
|
241,276
|
Sweden
|
114,122
|
France
|
232,487
|
Congo DR
|
113,357
|
Bangladesh
|
231,137
|
Tanzania
|
109,099
|
Egypt
|
230,055
|
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