·        Graphs below illustrate the inflow of migrants and refugees from 2001 to 2015 from 13 developing countries of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to European Union

·        International migrant is defined as “person who changes his or her country of usual residence” (United Nations definition)

·        Refugee inflow is measured as the number of new asylum applications based on the data from United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

·        Related work conducted by laboratory staff: (Aleskerov et al., 2017)

Figure 1.  Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Austria

Figure 2. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Belgium

Figure 3. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Bulgaria

Figure 4. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Croatia

Figure 5. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Cyprus

Figure 6. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Czech Republic

Figure 7. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Denmark

Figure 8.Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Estonia

Figure 9. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Finland

Figure 10. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to France

Figure 11. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Germany

Figure 12. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Greece

Figure 13. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Hungary

Figure 14. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Ireland

Figure 15. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Italy

Figure 16. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Latvia

Figure 17. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Lithuania

Figure 18. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Luxemburg

Figure 19. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Malta

Figure 20. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Netherlands

Figure 21. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Poland

Figure 22. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Portugal

Figure 23. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Romania

Figure 24. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Slovakia

 Figure 25. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Slovenia

Figure 26. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Spain

Figure 27.  Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to Sweden

Figure 28. Inflow of migrants and refugees from MENA to United Kingdom

Developing MENA countries of origin: Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, State of Palestine, Yemen

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