Story of refugees

Refugees

The most common reason people become refugees is persecution, which can take many forms: religious, national, social, racial or political. When it comes to religious refugees in the United States, the share of Christians and Muslims is relatively equal. According to Pew, 46 percent of refugees who arrived in the U.S. in 2016 were Muslims and 44 percent were Christians; 10 percent were members of other religions, such as Hindus, Buddhists and Jews. Around the world, religious refugees are everywhere: from persecuted Muslims in Burma to Christians in the Central African Republic to Hindus in Pakistan.

Most refugees in history are direct or indirect war refugees.Currently, the largest group of refugees in the world is fleeing the civil conflict in Syria, which has been raging since 2011 and has killed 400,000 Syrians and displaced 6.3 million internally. Another 5 million have left the country entirely.But before Syria, refugees fled en masse from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Afghanistan, in particular, had the largest number of refugees in the world for more than two decades between 1981 and 2013, before being overtaken by Syria that same year.

Last June, France became the first country to accept a gay Chechen refugee, a historic decision that had global repercussions. An estimated 20 million people in four countries in North Africa and the Middle East – Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen – are facing extreme drought, and many of these people are becoming refugees, forced to leave their home countries in search of stable food sources. There are about 17 million displaced people across the African continent, The Guardian reports, and only a small fraction of them reach the shores of the European continent. Many end up in vast informal refugee camps like the town of Monguno in northeastern Nigeria.Refugees fleeing famine may, of course, be fleeing other factors at the same time, including the rise of extremist groups like Boko Haram in Nigeria and the consequences of climate change.

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