THE NEW YORK TIMES - OCT. 31, 2015
SID,
Serbia — They arrived in an unceasing stream, 10,000 a day at the
height, as many as a million migrants heading for Europe this year,
pushing infants in strollers and elderly parents in wheelchairs,
carrying children on their shoulders and life savings in their socks.
They came in search of a new life, but in many ways they were the
heralds of a new age.
There are more displaced people and refugees now than at any other time in recorded history — 60 million in all — and they are on the march in numbers not seen since World War II. They are coming not just from Syria, but from an array of countries and regions, including Afghanistan, Iraq,
Gaza, even Haiti, as well as any of a dozen or so nations in
sub-Saharan and North Africa. They are unofficial ambassadors of failed
states, unending wars, intractable conflicts.
The most striking thing about the current migration crisis, however, is how much bigger it could still get.
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