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Graphic Truth: Absorbing The Migrant Wave

Graphic Truth: Absorbing The Migrant Wave
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During the height of the European migrant crisis in 2015 and 2016, more than a million asylum seekers, refugees, and economic migrants from North Africa, Syria, and South Asia sought shelter in Europe. Their arrival has changed politics in Europe, giving rise to anti-migrant backlashes in a number of countries. Here is a map that shows the recent increase in migrants as a percentage of the population in the 28 countries of the European Union.

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