International Non-Governmental Organizations

CARE International

CARE

Handicap International

50,733,320

50,857,464

International Committee of the Red Cross

ICRC

119,327,373

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent

Societies

IFRC

28,615,689

International Medical Corps

IMC

44,176,262

International Rescue Committee

IRC

40,880,550

Mercy Corps

Mercy
Corps

79,182,554

Oxfam

Oxfam

53,150,962

Save the Children International

89,549,837

Many attempting to reach Germany and other northern EU countries go via the perilous
Western Balkans route, running the gauntlet of brutal people traffickers and robbers.
Faced with a huge influx of people, Hungary was the first to try to block their route with a
razor-wire fence. The 175km (110-mile) barrier was widely condemned when it went up
along the Serbia border, but other countries such as Slovenia and Bulgaria have erected
similar obstacles.
Austria has placed a cap on the number of people allowed into its borders. And several
Balkan countries, including Macedonia, have also decided only to allow Syrian and Iraqi
migrants across their frontiers.

As a result, thousands of migrants have been stranded in makeshift camps in cashstrapped Greece, which has asked the European Commission for nearly 500m in
humanitarian aid.
Under an EU rule known as the Dublin regulation, refugees are required to claim asylum
in the member state in which they first arrive.
But some EU countries, such as Greece, Italy, and Croatia, have been allowing people
to pass through - often via the passport-free Schengen zone - to countries further north.
And those countries are often failing to send migrants back.
Germany received more than 1.1 million asylum seekers 2015 - by far the highest
number in the EU.
Hundreds of thousands of people are somewhere along the route, in Hungary, Croatia,
Austria, Serbia, and elsewhere.
Meanwhile between 2,000 and 5,000 migrants are camped at the French port of Calais
in the hope of crossing over to the UK.

Donor
World
Turkey
United States
European Union
United Kingdom
Germany
Kuwait
Private
Canada

Funding to Dec 2015 (in USD)

17,029,967,564
8,000,000,000
4,662,407,369
1,834,305,296
1,553,345,642
1,296,228,090
1,035,624,326
1,017,484,080
969,710,000

737,120,785
447,688,208
435,868,141
356,803,764
338,491,157
247,344,198
236,891,320
211,962,092

Saudi Arabia
Japan
UAE
Norway
Netherlands
United Nations
Qatar
Switzerland
Denmark
Sweden
Australia
France
Italy

203,691,497
193,258,749
176,605,888
150,236,015
111,443,572

Refugees of the Syrian Civil War

Total population:

4,812,993 refugees (registered, March 2016)[1]

6,130,000-6,320,000 internally displaced refugees (based on UN
estimate, March 2016)[2]

Regions with important populations[3]

Turkey

2,724,937 (registered as of August 2016)[4]

2,748,367 (the highest number registered since 3 March 2016)

Lebanon

1,500,000 (estimated arrivals as of Dec 2015)

1,048,275 (registered)[5]

Jordan

1,265,000 (census results as of Nov 2015)[6]

657,422 (registered July 2016)[7]

Germany

600,000 (registered by April 2016)[8]

Greece

496,119 (arrivals to May 2016)[9]

54,574 (estimated in country May 2016)[9]
5,615 (applicants to Dec 2015)[10]

Macedonia

400,000 (estimated arrivals)[9]

2,150 (applicants to December 2015)[10]

Serbia(incl. Kosovo)

313,314 (applicants to December 2015)[10]

Iraq (incl. Iraqi Kurdistan)

1,139,000 (estimated in Iraqi Kurdistan)

956,000 (estimated rest of Iraq March 2016)
249,395 (registered)[12]

United Arab Emirates

242,000 (estimated overstays, government source, 2015) [13][14]

Kuwait

155,000+[11][15] (estimated overstays to June 2015)

Egypt

117,702 (registered as of March 2016)

119,665 (UNHCR estimate as of March 2016)[16]
500,000 (Egypt MFA estimate as of September 2016)

Sweden
Hungary
Croatia

110,333 (applicants to December 2015) [10]

72,505 (applicants to December 2015) [10]
55,000 (estimated as of September 2015)[19]
386 (applicants to December 2015) [10]

Algeria

43,000 (estimated as of November 2015)

5,721 (registered as of November 2015) [20]

Austria

39,131 (applicants to July 2016)[10]

Netherlands

31,963 (applicants to July 2016) [10]

Libya

26,672 (registered as of December 2015)[1]

Armenia

20,000 (estimated as of October 2016)[21]

Denmark

19,433 (applicants to December 2015)[10]

Bulgaria

17,527 (applicants to December 2015)[10]

Belgium

15,951 (applicants to July 2016) [10]

Norway

13,993 (applicants to December 2015)[10]

Switzerland

12,931 (applicants to July 2016)[10]

France

11,694 (applicants to July 2016)[10]

United Kingdom

9,467 (applicants to July 2016)[10]

5,102 (resettled as of August 2015) [25]

Spain

8,365 (applicants to December 2015)[10]

Russia

5,000 (estimated 2015)[26]

Tunisia

4,000 (September 2015)[27]

Cyprus

3,527 (applicants to December 2015)[10]

Bahrain

3,500 (estimated June 2015)[11]

Montenegro

2,975 (applicants to December 2015)[10]

Italy

2,538 (applicants to December 2015)[10]

Romania

2,525 (applicants to December 2015)[10]

Malta

1,222 (applicants to December 2015) [10]

Somalia

1,312 (as of January 2016)

Finland

1,127 (as of December 2015)[10]

Gaza Strip

1,000 (as of December 2013)[29]

Language:

Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish, Armenian, Aramaic

Religion:

Sunni Islam, Christianity, Shia Islam, Yazidism, Druze

1.

Security Argumentsthe refugees pose a security risk to western societies that justifies rejecting them.

2.

Scarcity Argumentsthe refugees will consume resources that are already in short supply (e.g. money,
housing, etc.), and that justifies rejecting them.

3.

No Benefit Argumentswe only have duties to accept refugees where this benefits us, and refugees are
not beneficial.

4.

No Responsibility Argumentswe are not to blame for the political conditions in the Middle East that
have caused these people to be refugees, so we are justified in rejecting them irrespective of the benefits
or harms involved.