The real refugee crisis is in the Middle East, not Europe
The real refugee crisis is in the Middle East, not Europe
- May 14, 2016
- Op-ed by Kelsey Norman, political science graduate student, on the Middle East refugee crisis, courtesy of The Washington Post, May 14, 2016
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Kelsey P. Norman, PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Irvine, [writes]: A supra-national entity of 500 million, the E.U. is up in arms at the 1 million Syrian refugees who entered its borders last year. To put this in perspective, that’s about the same number of Syrian refugees currently in Lebanon, a country of just 4.5 million.
For the full story, please visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/14/the-real-refugee-crisis-is-in-the-middle-east-not-europe/.
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