As to our last half century being the most peaceful least violent time on this earth...I have been given grief for my rose colored glasses while proving that hear for a.decade...
Ya gotta keep.up dude.
The
European migrant crisis,
[n 2] or the
European refugee crisis,
[n 3] is a term given to a period beginning in 2015
[10] when rising numbers of people arrived in the
European Union (EU), travelling across the
Mediterranean Sea or overland through
Southeast Europe. These people included
asylum seekers, but also others, such as
economic migrants,
[11] and a number of hostile agents, including
Islamic State militants.
[12][13]
Most of the unauthorised foreign migrants came from
Muslim-majority countries of regions south and east of Europe, including
Western Asia,
South Asia and
Africa.
[14][15][16] By religious affiliation, the majority of entrants were
Muslim (usually
Sunni Muslim), with a small component of non-Muslim minorities (including
Yazidis,
Assyrians,
Mandeans, etc.). According to the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the top three nationalities of entrants of the over one million Mediterranean Sea arrivals between January 2015 and March 2016 were
Syrian (46.7%),
Afghan (20.9%) and
Iraqi (9.4%).
Between 2007 and 2011, large numbers of migrants from the Middle East and Africa crossed between Turkey and Greece, leading Greece and the European Border Protection agency Frontex to upgrade border controls.
[45] In 2012, immigrant influx into Greece by land decreased by 95% after the construction of a fence on that part of the Greek–Turkish frontier which does not follow the course of the
Maritsa River.
[46]In 2015, Bulgaria followed by upgrading a border fence to prevent migrant flows through Turkey.
[47][48]
In 2008,
Berlusconi's government in Italy and
Gaddafi's government in Libya signed a treaty including cooperation between the two countries in stopping irregular migration from Libya to Italy; this led to a policy of forcibly returning to Libya boat migrants intercepted by the Italian coast guard at sea.
[49] The cooperation collapsed following the outbreak of the
Libyan civil war in 2011, and in 2012 the
European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italy had violated the
European Convention on Human Rights by returning migrants to Libya, as it exposed the migrants to the risk of being subjected to
ill-treatment in Libya and violated the prohibition of
collective expulsions.
[50] Since 2011, and particularly since 2014, instability and the
Second Civil War in Libya have made departures from the north-African country to Italy easier, with no central authority controlling Libya's ports and dealing with European countries, and
migrant smuggling networks flourishing. The war could also have forced to leave many African immigrants residing in Libya, which used to be itself a destination country for migrants looking for better jobs.
Ascertaining motivation is complex, but, according to the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, most of the people arriving in Europe in 2015 were
refugees, fleeing war and
persecution[76] in countries such as
Syria,
Afghanistan,
Iraq and
Eritrea: according to
UNHCR data, 84% of Mediterranean Sea arrivals in 2015 came from the world's top ten refugee-producing countries.
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