Refugees are mainly coming from Afghanistan and Iraq where much of the violence in the Middle East is occurring. Syria tops all of this with it being the place with the largest amounts of the refugees. The top 10 places that are applying for European asylum in order are Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Pakistan, Eritrea, Nigeria. Iran, and Ukraine. This is because of mixture of poverty, violence, ISIS, etc.
Refugees are not all claiming asylum though, however many do. Germany has the highest amount of asylum seekers in 2015. They had over 476,000 applications for it. However, over a million have arrived in Germany for pre distribution before they make asylum claims. Hungary is the second place where asylum seekers are at a high rate, seeing to as they has 177,130 applications in 2015 by the end of December. Total …show more content…
This is the largest displacement of people the world has seen in awhile if not the largest. The media depicts the refugee’s as bad folks. I believe this is true, and I believe they are bias in the sense that they don’t show good refugee’s. However, many refugees cause problems for Europe, so there probably isn’t many good ones. My opinions is refugee’s should stay in their country to fix it’s problems instead of running away cowardly, if all countries did this economic instability, displacement, and continental issues would be