The real refugee crisis is in the Middle East, not Europe
The real refugee crisis is in the Middle East, not Europe
- May 14, 2016
- Op-ed by Kelsey Norman, political science graduate student, on the Middle East refugee crisis, courtesy of The Washington Post, May 14, 2016
Kelsey P. Norman, PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Irvine, [writes]: A supra-national entity of 500 million, the E.U. is up in arms at the 1 million Syrian refugees who entered its borders last year. To put this in perspective, that’s about the same number of Syrian refugees currently in Lebanon, a country of just 4.5 million.
For the full story, please visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/14/the-real-refugee-crisis-is-in-the-middle-east-not-europe/.
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