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Mix up on the Mediterranean: Revelations from the European Migration Crisis
›By Hana Alem // Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Migrants off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy. Photo courtesy of Vito Manzari via Flickr Creative Commons.
In 2014, a significant number of refugees began pouring into the European Union (EU), fleeing from Africa and the Middle East to escape political conflict, war, famine, and lack of economic opportunity. Many of these refugees entered Italy and Greece by land and sea. Reaching its peak in 2015, the crisis generated over one million migrants in that year alone. Europe’s handling of the crisis was aggravated by various misconceptions, misguided policies, and internal politics. Although the crisis has now abated somewhat, the next large-scale displacement of people is inevitable given global political, economic, and climate challenges. Yet lessons learned from the most recent European migration crisis could help to mitigate the next such crisis.
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