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2015 European migrant crisis - Wikipedia

An estimated 1.3 million people came to the continent to request asylum, the most in a single year since World War II. ... They were mostly Syrians, but also ...

2015: The year of Europe's refugee crisis - UNHCR

The influx of refugees and migrants to Europe reached staggering new levels this year, dominating headlines and prompting stormy political ...

Number of Refugees to Europe Surges to Record 1.3 Million in 2015

Refugees from Syria numbered 378,000 in 2015, accounting for 29% of all of Europe's asylum seekers – the highest share of any nation. This was ...

2015 in review: how Europe reacted to the refugee crisis - ICMPD

This blog gives a chronological overview of key incidences and policy responses by selected European countries.

Migrant crisis: Migration to Europe explained in seven charts - BBC

More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggled to cope with the influx.

Explaining refugee flows. Understanding the 2015 European ...

1. Introduction. In 2015 the European refugee crisis began when the flow of migrants increased dramatically from 153,000 in 2008 to more than 1 ...

Europe's Refugee Crisis: An Agenda for Action | HRW

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), over 3,455 people died at sea trying to reach the EU as of November 10, 2015.

The EU and the migration crisis - Publications Office of the EU

In 2015 and 2016 the EU experienced an unprecedented influx of refugees and migrants. More than 1 million people arrived in the European ...

The European Migration Crisis and Hungary

In 2015, Hungary was the second European Union country, behind Greece, to apprehend irregular migrants at its external borders with 411,515 recorded crossings.

Europe's Migration Crisis | Council on Foreign Relations

In September 2015, EU ministers agreed to resettle 120,000 migrants—a small fraction of those seeking asylum in Europe—from Greece and Italy across twenty-three ...

The Roots of Europe's Refugee Crisis

The majority of refugees headed to Europe are fleeing directly from Syria, but some are also leaving Lebanon with indications that daily, ...

The European refugee crisis and public support for the ...

The arrival of more than 2 million asylum seekers in Europe in 2015—2016 prompted not only temporary border closures in some European countries, ...

Europe's Responses to the Migration Crisis: Implications for ...

During 2015-2016, nearly one million migrants and refugees passed through Greece's Aegean islands and mainland toward central and northern ...

The EU response to migration and asylum | Topics

In 2015, there were 1.83 million irregular crossings at the EU's external borders. While irregular crossings stood at around 380,000 in 2023, ...

European asylum policy before and after the migration crisis

The migration crisis of 2015–2016 threw the European asylum system into disarray. The arrival of more than two million unauthorized migrants stretched the ...

The 2015 Migrant Crisis: An Impact to Germany? - Scholars Crossing

The 2015 European Migrant Crisis emerged when an influx of refugees settled in Europe from 2015-2019. The asylum seekers fled their ...

The 2015 European Refugee Crisis | Open Case Studies

In 2015, a record 1005504 asylum seekers and migrants reached Europe in search of security and a better future. That same year, almost 4000 people went ...

Europe's Migration Crisis in Context: Why Now and What Next?

More than 487,000 people have arrived at Europe's Mediterranean shores in the first nine months of 2015, double all of 2014 and the highest ...

A million refugees and migrants flee to Europe in 2015 - UNHCR

Persecution, conflict and poverty have forced an unprecedented one million people to flee to Europe in 2015, according to estimates by the UN Refugee Agency, ...

Europe's migrant crisis: The year that changed a continent - BBC

The attacks on young women in Cologne on New Year's Eve 2015 at the hands of men who came - in the main - from North Africa fuelled anger as did ...