REFUGEES - Syria

Question 1

Push Factors

Answer 1

• economy shattered, infrastructure poor

- Syrian civil war, began 2011 - 300,000 have been killed, worsened as foreign powers now involved

Question 2

Facts

Answer 2

1 million refugees arrived in Europe via illegal routes
Over half a million total migrants are under 18
UK agreed to take in 4,000 refugees a year

Question 3

Pull Factors

Answer 3

• NHS - healthcare
• accepting population (in general) - e.g. shocked at death of Alan Kurdi
• other countries unwilling to accept migrants, Hungary’s foreign minister called EU quotas “unfeasible, unrealisable and nonsense”