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Dozens of hungry, thirsty people in a tiny boat in the middle of
the sea…
Lives lost trying to cross a river or get through barbed wire…
The humiliation they encounter when they finally think they have
made it.
These sentences summarize the experiences of people trying to
reach Europe to claim asylum in recent years. Europe has been exposed
to an unprecedented wave of migration of late. The reason is sometimes
economic and sometimes a question of security.
When economic troubles in their homelands combine with concerns
over security, people want to migrate to – and live in – places they
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