Immigration: while tragedies shock Europe, a bigger migration crisis is taking place within the Middle East

Monday, 31 August 2015

While the world is fixed on Europe's migration crisis, we forget that a widder crisis is actually taking place in the Middle East.

Those reaching Europe represent a small percentage of the 4 million Syrians who have fled into Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, making Syria the biggest single source of refugees in the world and the worst humanitarian emergency in more than four decades. The endless fightings in Syria have major consequences on the international community through a long-term migration crisis on countries that are ill-equipped to address the situation which could prove deeply destabilizing, for the region and the wider world.

The European migration crisis goes beyond the question of immigration. The situation in Syria has driven to an international humanitarian crisis that urgently needs to be addressed on a multinational scale.

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