Far from home.

• Position: GRAPH - Immigration in Europe - Brief article

Europe is in the midst of a migrant crisis. In 2015, more than 1.2 million migrants arrived in the member states of the European Union (E.U.) seeking asylum, or official protection. Some had fled poverty in other parts of Europe, like Albania and Kosovo, in the hopes of getting a fresh economic start. But the vast majority of the newcomers had made harrowing journeys across the Mediterranean Sea to escape war and persecution in parts of the Middle East and Africa. The graph at right shows where most of the European Union's asylum seekers came from in 2015. The flood of migrants continues today.

ANALYZE THE GRAPH

1. From which of these countries did about 46,000 asylum seekers in the E.U. come from in 2015?

   a Afghanistan

   b Pakistan

   c Eritrea

   d Iran

2. Eritrea and Nigeria are both in Africa. About -- asylum seekers came from these two nations combined.

   a 63,000

   b 78,000

   c 85,000

   d 91,000

3. About -- of the 1.2 million migrants seeking asylum in the E.U. in 2015 came from Afghanistan.

   a 5 percent

   b 10 percent

   c 15 percent

   d 20 percent

4. In 2014, about 15,000 migrants from Irag sought asylum in the E.U. In 2015, the figure was -- times that.

   a about 2

   b about 4

   c about 6

   d about 8

5. About 44 percent of the asylum seekers from Syria, or about -- individuals, sought asylum in Germany.

   a 120,000

   b 140,000

   c 160,000

   d 180,000

   DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

6. Because asylum is meant for refugees fleeing places where it's unsafe to return, most migrants seeking asylum on economic grounds have had their applications rejected. Do...