REFUGEES - Syria Flashcards
1
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Push Factors
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- economy shattered, infrastructure poor
- Syrian civil war, began 2011 - 300,000 have been killed, worsened as foreign powers now involved
2
Q
Facts
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1 million refugees arrived in Europe via illegal routes
Over half a million total migrants are under 18
UK agreed to take in 4,000 refugees a year
3
Q
Pull Factors
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- NHS - healthcare
- accepting population (in general) - e.g. shocked at death of Alan Kurdi
- other countries unwilling to accept migrants, Hungary’s foreign minister called EU quotas “unfeasible, unrealisable and nonsense”