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| The influx of refugees and migrants to European shores |
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| The second decade of the 21st century saw an influx of refugees and migrants in Europe on an unprecedented scale. This raging crisis was initially sparked by the Syrian civil war which uprooted hordes of people fleeing dense cities, like Damascus, Homs and Aleppo. Elsewhere, in Africa, conflicts like the South Sudanese civil war, authoritarian regimes in Eritrea and economic hardships in places like Ethiopia and Nigeria have coalesced into a mixed bag of genuine asylum seekers and economic migrants posing as asylum seekers, most of which made their entry into Europe by crossing the Mediterranean sea via Libya and, in far-flung countries like Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children belonging to the Shia Muslim ethnic group Hazara have fled persecution at the hands of the resurgent Sunni Islamist Taliban en route to Europe by clandestine travel, just like asylum seekers from Iraq and Syria who fled terror waged by the Islamic State. The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol affords all refugees the guarantee that they shall not be forcibly returned to a country where they would face serious threats to their lives or freedom (core principle of non-refoulement). The burgeoning EU migrant crisis is a polarizing issue which continues to have currency. |
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