Stunning Video Shows Global Migration Flows

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Stunning Video Shows Global Migration Flows Into The US

As the debate over the Bush-era policy of separating migrant children from their families continues to rage despite crickets when Obama did it (aside from reports by the ACLU and University of Arizona) - perhaps it would be helpful to be able to visualize refugee migration around the world, courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University CREATE lab.

There are currently 68.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, according to the UN Refugee agency, of which 25.4 million are refugees and 3.1 million are seeking asylum.

 

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Focusing just on North America over the same time period, it's clear that refugee flows are far lower compared to the eastern hemisphere

 

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Using a different visualization from the CMU Create lab, the flow of refugees into Europe - particularly Greece and Italy, is stunning.

 

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According to the UN Refugee agency, there are 25.4 million refugees, while 57% of refugees came from South Sudan, Afghanistan and Syria.

 

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An unprecedented 68.5 million people around the world have been forced from home. Among them are nearly 25.4 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18.

There are also an estimated 10 million stateless people who have been denied a nationality and access to basic rights such as education, healthcare, employment and freedom of movement.

In a world where nearly 1 person is forcibly displaced every two seconds as a result of conflict or persecution, our work at UNHCR is more important than ever before. -UNHCR

 

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From 2014-2017, there has been a global spike in asylum seekers amid an overall increase in displaced people.

 

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[oldjones]

Thanks for those graphics. They clearly show that American fears of being overwhelmed are selfish and parochial. The countries bearing the largest burdens that the USA is ducking are among the poorest in the world.

 

[Frankfooter]

Thanks for those graphics. They clearly show that American fears of being overwhelmed are selfish and parochial. The countries bearing the largest burdens that the USA is ducking are among the poorest in the world.

Exactly, the map shows that most of the immigration has been hitting the EU.

 

[Smallcock]

Exactly, the map shows that most of the immigration has been hitting the EU.

That's due the geographics, and the EU is and should be much more concerned than Trump, considering the scale of migration. The majority of people in those nations do NOT want any more migrants. It's destabilizing their countries. EE countries like Poland and Hungary have totally rejected all migration, in effect giving the middle finger to the EU powers.

Trump and everyone in the US is well aware that their migration problem pales in comparison to the EU. The problems facing the EU is precisely what the US does NOT want to replicate, on any scale.

 

[Frankfooter]

That's due the geographics, and the EU is and should be much more concerned than Trump, considering the scale of migration. The majority of people in those nations do NOT want any more migrants. It's destabilizing their countries. EE countries like Poland and Hungary have totally rejected all migration, in effect giving the middle finger to the EU powers.

Trump and everyone in the US is well aware that their migration problem pales in comparison to the EU. The problems facing the EU is precisely what the US does NOT want to replicate, on any scale.

No, its due to foreign policy.
Check the main countries there, Syria and Afghanistan, they overshadow all other countries.

If you want to end the wave of immigration, stop 'intervening' in other countries and bombing the crap out of them so people want to leave.
A wall won't help

 

[oldjones]

No, its due to foreign policy.
Check the main countries there, Syria and Afghanistan, they overshadow all other countries.

If you want to end the wave of immigration, stop 'intervening' in other countries and bombing the crap out of them so people want to leave.
A wall won't help

You're on the right track. The Police will tell you the same, and so will the locksmith about your house: "If they want to come in for what you've got and they have not, the walls and the locks won't stop them."

Only way to do that is to make them believe they're as good or better off at home. Since they're risking their lives and spending what little they have to cross half a world on foot, preyed on by thieves and pirates and crossing dangerous waters in leaky boats, it shouldn't take much doing at all to make staying home seem better than that.

But building walls or throwing kids in cages ? They've endured worse, and overcome harder.