17 ways the unprecedented migrant crisis is reshaping our world
Saturday is World #Refugee Day, so WorldViews has compiled 17 examples of how the #migrant crisis is reshaping the world. It’s incomplete, but offers just a glimpse of the dramatic changes taking place.
1. The number of people displaced from their homes around the world in 2014 was almost as big as the population of Britain...
2. The proportion of the world who have been displaced is growing
3. More than half of all refugees in 2014 were #children...
5. Many of the world’s displaced people may never go home...
6. In the small African nation of Gambia, at least 4 percent of the population is now living abroad. Around 20 percent of the country’s gross domestic product now comes from remittances, according to World Bank figures...
7. Over 2.6 million refugees from Afghanistan have been living outside of their home country for more than three decades. It is unclear if or when they will return....