WHERE DO PEOPLE MIGRATE?

AFRICA

AFRICA

• Subsahran africa is the most impacted by migration because majority of migration flows are refugees
• Because of the war in Sudan, there have been more than 5 million people who are displaced
• 1.6 million refugees moved from Sudan to Uganda
• There are more than 1.5 million refugees that have moved into a smaller areas because of civil wars
• In the northern part of Sudan, the arab muslim government started genocide and counter migrations

NORTH AFRICA AND SOUTHWEST ASIA

NORTH AFRICA AND SOUTHWEST ASIA

• The gulf war of 1991 and war in Iraq, caused most of the refugees that moved into this region
• As many as 2.5 million Kurdish people of Iraq were in the refugee movement
• Kurdish people waere displaced in places like turkey and Iran seeking safety from the war back home
• When the Soviet Union invaded Afganistan, it forced people westward to get away (6.2 mil refugees)
• The Taliban started counter migration against refugees that had left and were coming back

SOUTH ASIA

SOUTH ASIA

• Pakistan froced Afghanistan's emigrants
• Soviet intrusion lead to over 3 million refugees
• Allied relation against terrorist bases, Oct 2001
• Sri Lanka civil war had big effect, from demands by minority
• Sinhalese - dominated and destroyed islands costing 10,000s lives, 200,000 unreported

SOUTHEAST ASIA

SOUTHEAST ASIA

• Indochina was the 20th century most desprare refugee crisis
• 1-2 million people fled to Vietnam
• After war, Cambodia had produced an exodus of 300,000 refugees escaped from their country
• Never-ending cycle of violence fled to Thailand's borders, Myanmar, largest refugee camp
• After tsunami & 2008 cyclone many died, Myanmar closed society is hard to structure

EUROPE

EUROPE

• Collapse of Yugoslavia in 1990s made largest refugee crisis in Europe since end of WWII
• There was a total of 6,056,000 refugees
• Dayton Accords - the cessation of armed conflict and implementation of a peace agreement
• UNHCR still reports as many as 1.6 million internal refugees
• These are people who are unable to return home or are dislocated

OTHER REGIONS

OTHER REGIONS

• The number of refugees and internally displaced persons in other geographic realms is much smaller
• Only columbia in the Western Hemisphere has a serious internally displaced person problem (2-3 million)
• This is caused by the country's cronic instability associated with its struggle against narcotics
• Those who abandon their familiar surroundings because of unlivable conditions perform on act of desperation
• The Earth's refugees and internally displaced person populations are a barometer of the world's future