Refugees and "The Conversation"

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At last academics providing information, opinion, and interesting research in an easy to read and understand fashion.
Try this one, regarding Refugee movement around the world. Based on actual figures it provides a great visual map of their movements.

Infographic: global refugee movements 1975-2010

By Steve Melnikoff, University of Melbourne

• Almost 3.5 million of refugees have arrived in Australia since 1975.
• More than 100 million people have fled Afghanistan since 1975.
• Iran and Pakistan have each taken around 60 million refugees during that time.
• Since 1989, 2.5 million refugees have fled Sri Lanka.
• 18 million refugees arrived in the US between 1975 and 2010; the UK has taken 5 million.

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Read the rest of The Conversation’s asylum seeker coverage:
Asylum seekers and Australia: the evidence
The Conversation panel on asylum seekers: meet the experts
Who are Australia’s ‘boat people’, and why don’t they get on planes?
Uncomfortable truths: busting the top three asylum seeker myths
There’s no evidence that asylum seeker deterrence policy works
There’s more to regional collaboration than the Malaysia Arrangement
How immigration policy harms asylum seekers' mental health
Asylum seekers in Indonesia: why do they get on boats?
Preventing deaths at sea: asking the experts on asylum seekers
Steve Melnikoff is the technical officer at iWakari.

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