European Migrant Crisis 2015

Question 1

How many refugees fled from Syria ?

Answer 1

3 million since 2011

1 million to Lebanon
1 million to turkey

Pressure on services / shelter

Question 2

How many migrants entered Europe ?

Answer 2

Over 600,000 from North Africa and Middle East

Main access by Italy / Greece

Question 3

Where were centres set up ?

Answer 3

Sicily - Italy

Lesbos these were full

Question 4

Why were refugees moving ?

Answer 4

Conflict

Persecution

Poverty

Better life

Question 5

How did refugees get to across Mediterranean ?

Answer 5

By overcrowded / unstable boats .

Drowned / died

Eu government were torn between the humanitarian impulse to save life’s and offer sanctuary and the struggle to provide aid and resources

Question 6

Migration to uk

Answer 6

Many people go for employment.

Calais 3,000 migrants living in temporary camps tried to illegally get into uk on trucks/ containers

Destruction to ferry / Euro tunnel and political tensions