Refugee crisis

Equivalents

Uprchlická krize — Flüchtlingskrise — Crisi dei rifugiati — Kryzys uchodźczy

Related terms

• (a type of) humanitarian crisis
• (is caused by) waves of refugees
• (mitigated through) refugee camps, refugee shelters, refugee hotspots and refugee quotas

Definition

A refugee crisis is defined as when many displaced people move from their home country to another, in a difficult or dangerous way.

Source: https://www.worldvision.org.uk/about/blogs/what-is-a-refugee-and-what-is-a-refugee-crisis/

Encyclopaedic information

The Syrian refugee crisis is the result of a March 2011 violent government crackdown on public demonstrations in support of a group of teenagers who were arrested for anti-government graffiti in the southern town of Daraa.

Source: https://www.unrefugees.org/news/syria-refugee-crisis-explained/

The years following the 2015 refugee crisis saw some European countries enact legislation to speed up deportations.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_European_migrant_crisis

Synonyms and variants

• migration crisis
• migrant crisis

Collocations

• European refugee crisis
• global refugee crisis
• Syrian refugee crisis
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• 2015 migrant crisis

Examples

The topic of US involvement in alleviating the Syrian refugee crisis continues to be a highly contentious issue among legislators, stakeholders, and activists.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War

In 2016, border controls were temporarily introduced in seven Schengen countries (Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, and Sweden) in response to the European refugee crisis.

Source: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-worldhistory/chapter/europe-in-the-21st-century/

Even now, the European Commission, the European Union's executive branch, is still trying to fix many of the flaws that the 2015 migrant crisis revealed in its asylum system.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/world/europe/eu-moria-migrants.html