set up Zhatari camp- initially for 60,000, now has 145,000. Costs $500,000 to run daily. Has become Jordan's 4th largest city.
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Lebanon:
Destabilised border region and refugees make up 20% of their population
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Turkey:
Pull- close, less risk, opened borders to migrants, step closer to EU. Have provided $8bn of aid. Now hugely pressure for coping with the numbers and needs, also problems: crime and overcrowded.
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Problems:
Majority do not live in camps and are unprotected, many (4.25 million) are unable to move across the border. Refugee camps increasingly pressured for resources.
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EU response
Granted asylum if they reach the EU- difficult and costly. EU quota plan- refugees apply for asylum before arrival. Only 25,000 refugees have made it into European coun
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Civil war in Syria- armed conflict between supporters of govt. and opposition- over 470,000 deaths from the war
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