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Review Papers | Social Science | Nigeria | Volume 5 Issue 11, November 2016 | Rating: 6.1 / 10
What is Your Thinking in the Global Issues? European Migration Crisis: The Unavoidable Reality
Zubairu Abubakar Ghani
Abstract: Migration has been a human phenomenon with varying motivators, scales, destinations and distances covered, within or crossing national boundaries. However, the scale of global migration have changed to a vexed level especially in the last few decades which has been exacerbated by conflicts, wars and economic dwindling of many third world countries. The paper discussed European migration crisis that have been aggravated by political upheavals, conflicts, wars and insurgencies in countries like Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, Mali, southern Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo which forced millions fled their homes. The author discussed also the responses of European nations in conjunction of Paris terror attack of 13th November, 2015 which irked the sympathy refugee migrants deserved.
Keywords: migration, migrants, forced migration, refugees, European Unions
Edition: Volume 5 Issue 11, November 2016,
Pages: 1923 - 1929