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Here's wikipedia, and you can follow the footnotes to sources.
First: The 2015 European migrant crisis[1][2][3][4][5] orEuropean refugee crisis[6][7][8] arose through the rising number of refugees and migrantscoming to the European Union, across theMediterranean sea or Southeast Europe, and applying for asylum.[9] They come from areas such as the Middle East (Syria, Iraq), Africa(Eritrea, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Gambia), theWestern Balkans (Kosovo, Albania, Serbia,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia)[10][11][12]and South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan,Bangladesh).[13][14][15]
So very clearly, it's not just people fleeing Syria.
Sea and land arrivals to the EU
in 2014 by nationality[43]
Syria79,169
Eritrea34,586
Unspecified sub-Saharan nationals26,341
Afghanistan22,132
Kosovo*22,069
Mali10,575
Albania9,323
Gambia8,730
Nigeria8,715
Somalia7,676
Others54,216
Total 283,532
Second:Most of the migrants are adult men (72%).[16]
But aren't war refugees generally going to be families?? I'd suggest that that high a percentage of adult males are more suggestive of a high percentage of economic migrants looking for work rather than entire families/villages fleeing a war. And if they're really just large numbers of adult men fleeing those wars because they don't want to get involved, I'm with @King Stannis. Let them fight for their own countries.
Third. Why are they heading for Germany? Why Sweden? Why Denmark? Why not hang out in Southern Europe - that's not in the war zone, right? Or why not hang out in other nations in the ME or Africa that are not at war?
First: The 2015 European migrant crisis[1][2][3][4][5] orEuropean refugee crisis[6][7][8] arose through the rising number of refugees and migrantscoming to the European Union, across theMediterranean sea or Southeast Europe, and applying for asylum.[9] They come from areas such as the Middle East (Syria, Iraq), Africa(Eritrea, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Gambia), theWestern Balkans (Kosovo, Albania, Serbia,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia)[10][11][12]and South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan,Bangladesh).[13][14][15]
So very clearly, it's not just people fleeing Syria.
Sea and land arrivals to the EU
in 2014 by nationality[43]
Syria79,169
Eritrea34,586
Unspecified sub-Saharan nationals26,341
Afghanistan22,132
Kosovo*22,069
Mali10,575
Albania9,323
Gambia8,730
Nigeria8,715
Somalia7,676
Others54,216
Total 283,532
Second:Most of the migrants are adult men (72%).[16]
But aren't war refugees generally going to be families?? I'd suggest that that high a percentage of adult males are more suggestive of a high percentage of economic migrants looking for work rather than entire families/villages fleeing a war. And if they're really just large numbers of adult men fleeing those wars because they don't want to get involved, I'm with @King Stannis. Let them fight for their own countries.
Third. Why are they heading for Germany? Why Sweden? Why Denmark? Why not hang out in Southern Europe - that's not in the war zone, right? Or why not hang out in other nations in the ME or Africa that are not at war?
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