Difference between revisions of "Refugee crisis"
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Revision as of 13:00, 5 June 2022
Equivalents
Uprchlická krize — Flüchtlingskrise — Crisi dei rifugiati — Kryzys uchodźczy
Related terms
- (a type of) humanitarian crisis
- (caused by a sudden rise in the number of) refugees
- (accompanied by) waves of refugees
- (mitigated through) refugee camps, refugee shelters, 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