Refugee Crisis

KEY FACTS THE REFUGEE CRISIS ABOUT ACTUAL STATISTICS ABOUT THE MIGRATION CRISIS 62% of those who reached Europe by boat this year were from Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan, according to figures compiled by the UN. WHY? WAR, DICTATORIAL OPPRESSION & RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM CALAIS "CRISIS"? The number of 0.027% nigrants that have arrived so far this 1% 2000-5000 MIGRANTS year (200,000) is so minuscule that it constitutes just 0.027% of Europe's total population of 740 million. The migrants at Calais account for about 1% of those who have ar- Italy & Greece rived in Europe this year. Estimates suggest that between 2,000-5,000 migrants have reached Calais, only around 1-2% of the 200,000+ that have landed in Italy and Greece. 200,000 REFUGEES 1/4 PEOPLE IN LEBANON ARE REFUGEES 1.2 MILLION SYRIAN REFUGEES WITHIN A TOTAL POPULATION OF ROUGHLY 4.5 MILLION 100 TIMES SMALLER Lebanon which is more than 100 times smaller than the EU has already taken in more than 50 times as many refugees as the EU will even consider resettling in the future. Lebanon has a refugee crisis. Europe – and, in particular, Britain – does not. BRITAIN'S GENEROUS BENEFIT SYSTEM? GERMANY SWEDEN BRITAIN FRANCE £35.21 £36.84 £36.95 £56.62 PER WEEK Many claim that Britain is a coveted destination for migrants because of its generous benefits system. Aside from the reality that most migrants have little prior knowledge of the exact nature of each European country's asylum system, it is not true that the UK is particularly beneficent. 2014 26,740 2015 27,800 4% INCREASE REFUGEES REFUGEES Last autumn, the EU opted to suspend full-scale maritime rescue operations in the Mediterranean in the belief that their presence was only encouraging more migrants to risk the journey from Libya to Europe. In reality, people kept coming. ASYLUM (IN 2014) 68,500 97,275 10,050 35,180 39,905 UK ITALY SWEDEN FRANCE GERMANY €11BN According to a series of investigations by the website 'The Migrant Files', as much as €11billions has been spent on repatriating migrants to their countries of origin since 2000. THE COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST REFUGEES TURKEY 1.59 MILLION PAKISTAN 1.51 MILION DO NOT ENTER KEEP OUT NO DANGER 2011 2015 TRESPASSING 193,600 117,161 A billion has been spent on Europe-wide coordination efforts to secure Despite the hysteria, the number of refugees in the UK has actually fallen by 76,439 since 2011. European borders – money that could have been spent on helping the displaced refugees. WHERE DO FROM? THEY COME More than half (53%) of all refugeees worldwide came from just three coutries. O 3.88 . 2.59 1.1 MILLION MILLION MILLION SYRIA AFGHANISTAN SOMALIA GREECE (JULY 2015) II Year on year there is an increase of new arrivals to Greece, which is already struggling with it's own economic crisis. 6,000 REFUGEES 50, 000 REFUGEES JULY 2014 JULY 2015 Mainly based on an article by Patrick Kingsley published by Guardian on 10th August 2015 RECOURCES FROM DESIGN BY http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/10/10-truths-about-europes-refugee-crisis PETRA BLAHOVA http://missingmigrants.iom.int http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-15-5498_em.htm