Refugees welcome: the numbers add up

• Autores: Debora MacKenzie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3038, 2015, págs. 10-12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • For more than a year, world news has reported desperate refugees, most from war-torn Syria, dying in their attempts to reach Europe. Most governments refused to let them in. That changed last week with the photo of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, dead on a beach in Turkey after a boat taking his family to Greece capsized. Now Europeans are demanding more help for asylum seekers. EU governments had agreed to resettle only 32,000 across Europe; on Monday Sep 14 they will debate upping that to 160,000. Already this year 362,000 illegal migrants have arrived in Europe and thousands continue to pour in, says the International Organisation for Migration. An estimated 80% are refugees from violence; Europe is legally obliged to give them asylum.