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An ongoing refugee crisis began in Europe in late February 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Over 6 million refugees fleeing Ukraine are recorded across Europe, [1] while an estimated 8 million others had been displaced within the country by late May 2022. [needs update][2][3][4] Approximately one-quarter of the country's total ...
A refugee crisis can refer to difficulties and dangerous situations in the reception of large groups of forcibly displaced persons. These could be either internally displaced, refugees, asylum seekers or any other huge groups of migrants. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), due to conflicts, human rights ...
The list below includes the number of refugees per event with at least 1 million individuals included. This list does not include internally displaced persons (IDP). For events for which estimates vary, the geometric mean of the lowest and highest estimates is calculated to rank the events. Rows highlighted in blue indicate a present event that ...
2015 European migrant crisis. During 2015, there was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and migrants into Europe. 1.3 million people came to the continent to request asylum, [2] the most in a single year since World War II. [3]
Who is a Refugee and who is not - the Crisis of Identity as a Challenge to Protection Online video of an address by Erika Feller, director, Department of International Protection, UNHCR, in 2005 "U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)". USCRI's Campaign to End Refugee Warehousing. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007
The Venezuelan refugee crisis, the largest recorded refugee crisis in the Americas, [5] refers to the emigration of millions of Venezuelans from their native country during the presidencies of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro since the Bolivarian Revolution. [1][2][6] The revolution was an attempt by Chávez and later Maduro to establish a ...
2015 Rohingya refugee crisis. Rohingya refugee camp in Aceh, Indonesia in 2015. In 2015, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people were forcibly displaced from their villages and IDP camps in Rakhine State, Myanmar, due to sectarian violence. Nearly one million fled to neighbouring Bangladesh and some travelled to Southeast Asian countries ...
Non-Mexicans arriving on the border are overwhelmingly Central American nationals. The 2014 American immigration crisis was a surge in unaccompanied children and women from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) seeking entrance to the United States in 2014. According to U.S. law, an unaccompanied alien child refers to a person under ...