European migrant crisis
The European migrant crisis, also known as the European refugee crisis, was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and migrants into Europe during the 2010s. The term is often used to refer specifically to the year 2015, when 1.3 million people came to Europe to request asylum, the highest number since World War II. The most common nationalities of those requesting asylum in Europe in 2015 were Syrian (47%), Afghan (21%) and Iraqi (9%).