What civil wars created a lot of refugees?
March 27, 2016 6:28 AM Subscribe
I'm looking to find a list of civil wars that generated a lot of refugees that settled in Western Europe from 1980-2004.
These don't have to be civil wars, they could be humanitarian crises or whatnot. Just things that were not located in Western Europe, that generated a lot of refugees, and that some of these refugees settled in Western Europe. The Somali Civil War during the late 1980s is a case in point: lots of refugees, and a lot of them went to the UK.
These don't have to be civil wars, they could be humanitarian crises or whatnot. Just things that were not located in Western Europe, that generated a lot of refugees, and that some of these refugees settled in Western Europe. The Somali Civil War during the late 1980s is a case in point: lots of refugees, and a lot of them went to the UK.
The Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009) created a large Tamil diaspora, many of whom fled as refugees and some of whom entered Western Europe.
posted by obscure simpsons reference at 8:50 AM on March 27, 2016
posted by obscure simpsons reference at 8:50 AM on March 27, 2016
Starting in the late 70s and continuing well into the 90s, many hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled by boat, and tens of thousands of them ended in up in Western Europe.
After the fall of the Iron Curtain, and especially after the first steps of economic integration with the European Union, many Eastern Europeans (notably many Poles) travelled west for economic opportunities.
posted by monospace at 12:23 PM on March 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
After the fall of the Iron Curtain, and especially after the first steps of economic integration with the European Union, many Eastern Europeans (notably many Poles) travelled west for economic opportunities.
posted by monospace at 12:23 PM on March 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
The Lebanese civil war; the Vietnamese boat refugees; the Balkan civil war; the continuous situation with Kurds in Turkey, but also Iraq, Iran and Syria; the Iranian revolution; a whole range of South American coups, but Argentina and Chile are the ones I remember the best. Uganda - both the Idi Amin coup and the aftermath. Sri Lanka was a big thing in my personal experience.
posted by mumimor at 3:47 PM on March 27, 2016
posted by mumimor at 3:47 PM on March 27, 2016
The Greek civil war sent many refugees away from Greece, including my mom, her two sisters, her parents, and my uncle.
posted by vrakatar at 6:04 PM on March 27, 2016
posted by vrakatar at 6:04 PM on March 27, 2016
Also: since both Spain and Portugal were fascist dictatorships till the mid-seventies, there were also plenty of refugees from those countries.
posted by mumimor at 12:12 PM on March 28, 2016
posted by mumimor at 12:12 PM on March 28, 2016
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