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The result of the move request was: not moved. Jenks24 (talk) 08:14, 6 August 2012 (UTC)


Refugees of the Syrian civil war → Syrian refugees – I propose to rename it to "Syrian refugees", since the majority of sources use the simple form, rather than the "refugees of the Syrian civil war". In addition, there is no place for confusuion, as there were practically no other notable refugee waves out of Syria, prior to the eruption of the civil war.Greyshark09 (talk) 17:02, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

  • Oppose. The proposed name is too ambiguous. A quick search on Google Books shows that WP:COMMONNAME hasn't been established, unlike Palestinian refugees. The phrase "Syrian refugees" has been used to describe the exodus of Syrian Jews after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and Syrian refugees arriving from the Ottoman Empire during the first World War. The lack of a common name is not surprising considering this is a recent event, so it would be beter to wait a few years before we consider moving the page.--SGCM (talk) 04:58, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
    And there's another issue. Syrian refugees can refer to both refugees from Syria and refugees living in Syria. Syria is home to a large population of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees.--SGCM (talk) 05:02, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
  • Oppose - for pretty much the same reasons given above, very ambiguous and could refer to Jewish refugees from post-1948, Palestinian refugees living in Syria, Palestinian refugees fleeing from Syria, etc. If there's a general article called "Syrian refugees," and that article does discuss people fleeing from Syria (rather than living in it), then a section can be added on this article, with a link to this article. But otherwise, I'd say keep the name. --Activism1234 05:28, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
    • Also, I think that the title should specify the years it's referring to (2011-2012), as there have been a number of coups in Syria or fighting, and this would make it more specific. But it depends on whether those coups and fighting before the Ba'ath party and Hafez al-Assad's rise to power are considered civil wars, of which I'm not an expert in. --Activism1234 05:30, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
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Western hemisphere destinations?

Canada, the United States and Argentina are countries with significant populations of refugees. Surely some refugees of the civil war are in those countries. Do we have figures?Dogru144 (talk) 11:34, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

According to the Antiochian Archdiocese, some Orthodox refugees from Syria are arriving in Pennsylvania. [1]. Probably just the tip of the iceberg, too, as the article says the US government has opened the doors for Syrians. FiredanceThroughTheNight (talk) 19:29, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Details on women, children, and religious groups

I would like to add more information on specific groups of Syrian refugees, particularly women, children, and religious groups. Does anyone know if this is already covered somewhere? I've looked but I haven't found anything. Saira Weinzimmer (talk) 23:24, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

There are no Syrian refugees in Israel

Gilabrand added to this article 7 Syrian rebels who are treated at a hospital in Israel. But these aren't refugees. They are rebels (soldiers) and they never went to Israel, they were at the ceasefire line in the occupied Golan and then the Israeli military transported them to Israel. If these are refugees then US soldiers who are transported to Germany for medical treatment from Iraq or Afghanistan are also "refugees", of course they are not. The sources doesn't even refer to them as "refugees". --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 13:54, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

You are wrong, please cease and desist your anti-Israel propaganda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.131.190.170 (talk) 01:51, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Obviously those 7 Syrians are "refugees". See for instance The voice of Russia source. --AgadaUrbanit (talk) 06:21, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
There are probably several dozen Syrian civilians in Israel for various reasons, but this is obviously of little importance, considering the total numbers of Syrian refugees is well over 2 million.Greyshark09 (talk) 18:12, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

?? Bulgaria PM survives third no-confidence vote [2](Lihaas (talk) 17:41, 12 February 2014 (UTC)).

Slanted reason for refugees leaving needs correction

This article mentions in virtually every paragraph that the refugees are fleeing the Syrian Regime's army. While this may be true in all or many of the cases mentioned, it is certainly not true for those non-Sunni groups such as Christians, Shias, Armenians, non-categorized Damascus residents and even Kurds. In the few places where these groups are mentioned, no reason is given for their departure. However, it is well documented that these minorities have been terrorized by rebels, usually militants from other countries, in areas where the Syrian Army has been unable to provide protection. As we speak, Christian villages are being desecrated and the Kurds are fighting off rebel groups. It would be useful to make a conscious effort to balance this otherwise useful article.74.59.235.177 (talk) 00:16, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Anybody can edit this if you have good sources. GeorgeLouis (talk) 21:48, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Europe should accept more refugees in Syria

Turkey has accepted 1.6 million Syrian refugees, Europe has accepted very few Syrian refugees, should accept more refugees must accept Syrian refugees in the country, US-Russia-china-bay.[3],[4] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.178.58.11 (talk) 20:35, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Syrian refugees in Turkey has spent $ 7 billion [5],United Nations, European Union, United States, Russia, the Gulf States, Russia, China, Japan should give more financial support source of money. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.178.58.11 (talk) 20:44, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

local to where?

In the #Reactions/Refugees accepted subsection there is an image of a sign featureing the description, "Refugees Welcome" sign, used by locals to signalize a friendly attitude. Can local be clarified? Would ".. around the localities of refugee camps" be suitable? GregKaye 14:14, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Aid given

I've just added to #Reactions with a Template:Bar chart on aid given here

It has a fixed width but I would like to extend to full page width but with a minimum width. If anyone knows how to do this pls help. I'll also ask on WP:Pump.

GregKaye 14:00, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Further content on other charities / organisations that are supplying aid would add to the picture. GregKaye 14:18, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Registered and estimated are not the same thing.

Generally speaking, estimates are for the total number of refugees that exist, which will usually be more than the number registered since some may not have yet had the chance to or have gone through other means to get out of Syria thats not strictly on the books.

So making that number the same thing is wrong. Not only that, it's pointless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:CB:8001:6C18:61B2:AA17:9049:9655 (talk) 21:44, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

United Kingdom 216 number

There is a lot of media in the UK implying that only 216 Syrian refugees have been accepted. I have just fixed the section in the article which put this number first, as on its own it is misleading. The government figures show that just over 5,000 people have been granted asylum from Syria, but of those 216 have been actively resettled. If there is any need to further analyse the 216 figure in the article, I think the 5,000 figure should always be given alongside it, and preferably first.Wikiditm (talk) 11:46, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Figures

In a previous version of this article, it says that Saudi Arabia has offered $476 million to Syrian Refugees, in a later version, $280 million is mentioned. Which is correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.127.32.45 (talk) 13:13, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Syrians in Saudi Arabia – 100,000 or 2.5 million?

The other important number is 0 - this is the number of the 400,000 the UN has asked countries to resettle, of those KSA has committed to 0. They have allowed people to come or stay as workers - this is different than taking in refugees.

Here's the source - from today:http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-september-16-2015-1.3230092/arab-gulf-states-under-fire-to-help-syrian-refugees-1.3230101


Regarding to this edit [6] ... Well, it seems that Saudi Arabia is entangled in its own lies now. Why have they waited so long to make these claims? You see Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey regularly in the news but none in the Persian Gulf Arab states.

  • "Saudi Arabia has said reports about its response to the Syrian refugee crisis are “false and misleading” and it has in fact given residency to 100,000 people as war rages in their country." – "Saudi Arabia says criticism of Syria refugee response 'false and misleading'". The Guardian. 12 September 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  • "The Kingdom has received around 2.5 million Syrians since the beginning of the conflict. In order to ensure their dignity and safety, the Kingdom adopted a policy that does not treat them as refugees or place them in refugee camps." – "Saudi official: We received 2.5 mln Syrians". Al Arabiya. 12 September 2015.

This is Saudi Arabia's profile on the official UNHCR website. http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e486976.html -- Tobby72 (talk) 11:05, 13 September 2015 (UTC)


So which article is true? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.127.32.45 (talk) 13:54, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Anwar Gargash figure for UAE 100,000 + 140,000 already resident

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/opinion/united-arab-emirates-aid-to-syrians.html?_r=0 http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150914/1026953717.html In ictu oculi (talk) 14:07, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

This article is in the news

Due to vandalism on 18 September.[7]--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 16:17, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

table selfcontradicting

The figures in the table are not consistent. How can there be a estimated total of 1*10^6, if there are 1,4*10^6 in Turkey alone? How can there a registered total of 844.094, if Turkey and Jordan alone have a total of 963.237? This dosn`t make sense. I assume, the totals weren't updated, when the Nations were updated. I request clarification. --87.123.50.173 (talk) 08:11, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Here some more uptodate info [8] — Preceding unsigned comment added by PLNR (talk • contribs) 17:24, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, but what does 1,4*10^6 mean? Yours in puzzlement, GeorgeLouis (talk) 21:46, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
1.4 million in standard form. The comma is used in mainland Europe as a decimal point. Also the numbers still don't add up. Banak (talk) 21:15, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Infobar is a joke...0 refugees from Syria in GReece??? ffs...better remove that piece of...joke — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.87.198.205 (talk) 19:10, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Missing Up-to-Date Information

Some important information that could be added to this page under Aid could be the recent problems of surrounding countries closing their borders to refugees, such as Germany. It may also be insightful to add a couple "top news" events that have occurred in the past couple months with the Syrian boy that was found washed up on the shore of a country close to Syria after their boat from fleeing the country capsized. This information could help people better understand just how desperate and difficult the times are for those fleeing Syria. Jwc623 (talk) 22:59, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

I added that dead kid.92.21.146.0 (talk) 01:35, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

I added the Polish race-riot.89.240.56.225 (talk) 15:10, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Removed sentence from Lead Section 23-NOV-15

The following sentence was removed from the Lead Section:

Many Syrians refugees are exposed to dangerous conditions and various medical hazards, including hypothermia during the cold winter months, starvation for poor refugees, and drowning.<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/11/migrants-missing-boats-sink-mediterranean</ref>

First, the supplied source only supports the drowning issue. While hypothermia is mentioned it is in relation to drowning at sea, not enduring winter weather. There is no mention of starvation in the source.

Second, this does not fit well into the Lead Section as a stand alone sentence. I think it could be part of the Lead, but only with an expanded rewrite and better sources. A short concise paragraph describing ALL the issues facing the refugees (dangers at home, transit dangers like drowning, resettlement problems and living conditions, etc) would be appropriate for the Lead. See MOS:LEAD. 172.88.134.126 (talk) 09:43, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Problematic numbers in table

The table in the lead is misleading. It mixes a bunch of different figures and show them as if they're comparable when in fact they involve different things. For example:

  • Netherlands: 36,000 (wiki article said >46,000, but see the source) – these are total asylum seekers, regardless of nation of origin.
  • Austria: 200,000 – these are people passing the borders of the country in Sept 2015, but most of these continued to other countries.
(I've been unable to find support for the 18,000+ in the citations; couldn't see it in the second and the first says 7,692 in Jan-June 2015; I speak German, the language in the citations)
  • Denmark: 14,866 – these are Syrian asylum seekers only (the wiki article previously had different numbers based on other sources, but several of these sources did not have any numbers, while others simply dealt with the proposed, centrally guided EU quotas where Denmark has said it will not participate).

In the above cases, I've now added specifications to make it entirely clear what the numbers show (total asylum seekers; people passing the country; Syrian asylum seekers), as well as {{failed verification}} for the number I can't find in the citations. However, similar problems exist throughout the list and all numbers need a review+specification that says what the number covers. 62.107.222.79 (talk) 21:49, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

By the way: If we want directly comparable numbers instead (much more useful), the UNHCR report for 2015 will presumably be published soon. Alternatively Eurostat can be used. Their information is more detailed and their updates are more regular, but only include EU countries+Norway+Switzerland (check via this and follow one of the "migr_asyappctzm" links [next to each figure, but can't be linked directly as it require cookies to work]; click "+"; under "citizen" select all, then unselect and finally choose Syria; under "Time" mark the requested time; finish by clicking "update"). Regardless, at least for EU countries, unregistered+passing through (like the Austrian number above) are pretty useless. After all, every single Syrian that reaches Germany, Scandinavia, France, UK, etc, has passed through a whole bunch of countries to reach the final destination. Typically at least the Balkans, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and/or Austria. 62.107.222.79 (talk) 23:35, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Turkey

Syrian civil war , serious problems Turkey, Europe ignored the problem,Most Syrian refugee hosting country Turkey ,many untold missing, Turkey has spent large sums of money

Unhcr

ec.europe.eu

Turkey Has Spent Nearly $8 Billion Caring For 2.2 Million Syrian Refugees

Saddled with 2 million Syrian refugees, Turkey shows signs of strain — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.178.32.78 (talk) 20:49, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Displaced Turkmen Worry How To Survive As Frigid Temperatures Set In Across Syria

As frigid temperatures set in across northern Syria, displaced Turkmen worry about how they will manage to survive. Although Turkey has trucked in preemptive loads of blankets, heaters and tents, many of the 20,000 displaced Turkmen residents worry it won't be enough Russian Bombing Turkmen Refuguee — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.170.179.104 (talk) 16:36, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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UPDATE to February 2016 and Proposal

Hello,

I have updated and revised the introduction, tables, donor data, references and information about Canada and the USA. I have also edited most sections for clarity and currency, and put country info into alphabetical or numeric order, as needed. I have shifted sources for hard data from media outlets to primary sources (such as the UNHCR) and updated the data.

I have done minor edits on Political Fallout and Public Responses. But the section needs an overhaul. I propose that it be revised as follows: -change name to Political and Social Responses -to show developments over time, by country (instead of snap shots of one moment in time) -reflect positive and negative views

I have not touched the "History" section, through it is clearly problematic. I propose that the History section be revised as follows: -reverse chronological order -refocus to major historical developments in the refugee crises -rewrite into simple paragraphs -remove minutia related to minor changes in refugee numbers, sub-national locations, minor political statements, etc..

Thoughts? Comments? Cautions? Suggestions? Robert Brukner (talk) 20:04, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Go for it. - theWOLFchild 22:00, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Rewritten and with data updates to Feb 2016 where possible. All countries with references are included in the data tables. Arbitrary removal of countries with under 1,000 refugees reversed. Robert Brukner (talk) 23:01, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

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Refugees arriving in NZ

Hi. Lately, in NZ, schools are participating on helping Syrian refugees that will be arriving by this week. I have not found a source in the internet yet, though, sorry. Can someone please put NZ in the template list at the top right? Thanks. Typhoon2013 (talk) 10:28, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Sure!! Give me the numbers and source and I'll pop it in for you. Robert Brukner (talk) 22:34, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
@Robert Brukner: Oh, I said that I could not find a source in the internet. And what numbers are you talking about? Also it has been confirmed by people around that the Syrian Refugees had arrived few days ago. Typhoon2013 (talk) 02:54, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
@Typhoon2013: Hey, I found some numbers and put them in the table. Robert Brukner (talk) 03:11, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Thank you so much! Have a great day. :) Typhoon2013 (talk) 22:14, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

IP Vandalism

There is a persistent effort to screw with the data in this article, particularly as regards the numbers of refugees in Muslim countries. I have requested Temporary Protection on the page in an effort to halt IP changes for a fixed period, in an attempt to discourage what I hope is just random IP trolling. If it continues I will elevate the requested level of protection. Robert Brukner (talk) 21:20, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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Arrivals and asylum applicants in infobox

In my opinion, reporting the number of Syrians who arrived in a particular (European) country in the infobox is superfluous or even misleading, since the same people moved through multiple countries after arriving in Greece and Italy and did not stay in those countries. If we want to know where those people are now, we have to look at asylum applications, so reporting these UNHCR data should be enough. Another solution could be keeping the number of arrivals in infobox, but ranking the countries based on the number of asylum applications/registered refugees instead of the number of arrivals (which makes it look as if Greece and Macedonia were among the main countries of asylum of Syrian refugees, when in reality very few Syrian refugees are currently hosted in those countries). Nykterinos (talk) 15:23, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Arabian peninsula

At the Arabian peninsula exists several of the World's most rich countries (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Quatar, Bahrain, Kuwait etc) , so why can't they take more muslim refugees ? I think issues like that is necessary to rise, if the article should be good. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.249.172.121 (talk) 04:51, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

There are many Syrians there, but they are not registered as refugees, but rather as "overstays" (excluded from UNHCR count).GreyShark (dibra) 08:51, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Resettled

Can we count resettled refugees as "refugees"? I think resettlement basically cancels their refugeehood per UNHCR definition.GreyShark (dibra) 08:51, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Refugees of the Syrian Civil War in Jordan

This article could be considered, if not for a full merger, than for some partial one here, perhaps. That article should probably be renamed to Refugees in Jordan. I am discussing it here since I doubt that mostly orphaned article has much of an audience. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 22:26, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Refugee Health

I am interested in adding a section about the health crisis in refugees that has occurred as a result of the Syrian Civil War. Details of my piece would include mental health of refugee children and illnesses prevalent in refugee populations that have fled from the Syrian war. My userpage (sshah11) has various sources that I will use to contribute to this article.Sshah11 (talk) 16:05, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, that sounds great, the topic is important and there's certainly a lot missing on health too. Feel free to ask for any help. Tokenzero (talk) 16:41, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Numbers of Syrian refugees in various countries

The numbers of 'Refugees of the Syrian Civil War' in various countries (top right-hand table) presently add up to 15 million. Yet at the top of this table, the total number is listed as 5,4 or 6,1 million. So at least some of this information is very wrong. Should this not be accounted for in the lemma?Mcouzijn (talk) 03:57, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

When I add up the max estimates I actually get like 12mln? But yes, the gap is still big. The 5,4 mln total number is actually only counting UNHCR registered refugees in the 3RP Region (Turkey Lebanon Jordan Iraq Egypt), this should be highlighted better. The 6,1 is actually written as 6,1–6,3 and I don't know where this comes from, the citation implies 6,6. More importantly, it is based on an estimate of Syria's pre-war and current population, which are certainly not that precise, given the millions of internally displaced persons (a quick search gives estimates different by several mln, both ways). Moreover, if one just subtracts populations from different times, this doesn't account for births, which at pre-war rates would give ~3mln more after 5 years. It's also based on a March 2016 estimate, but there were roughly 1mln more refugees since then (based on UNHCR 3RP numbers).
As for individual country numbers: Saudi Arabia (similarly UAE and Kuwait) claims 2mln more than outside estimates; I personally believe these claim are pretty wild and the minimum estimates are much more probable there. Claims by governments of 3RP countries are also probably exaggerated – there's certainly more refugess than UNHCR registered ones, but not twice as many (there are some UNHCR polls to back that up, but nothing too precise). In general some of the numbers may include refugees from the closely related conflicts in Iraq. Tokenzero (talk) 09:10, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Significance of US opinion

As Wikipedia strives for a degree of objectivity placing the "US Public Opinion" as high up in the article as it is now feels distinctively US-centric. Syrian refugees are not nearly as major occurance in the Americas as they are around the mediterranean and Europe, so replacing or reducing this part would be advisable. Ilmarim (talk) 19:31, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

I agree, it definitely should not be above 3RP countries; now under North America it's ok. Since the article is already a tad too long, perhaps moving that to an article on, say, "US reactions to migrant crisis" would be better (there's also no point in limiting it to Syria then). Europe has European migrant crisis, while 3RP countries, with >80% of the refugees, have essentially no other article. Tokenzero (talk) 07:53, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Untitled

Here's a list of smaller things that could be improved or added:

  • Add a small chart on the number of new refugees every half-year or every quarter (based on data registered in the 3RP).
  • Try to understand the trends on this chart, can they be related to peace talks or events in the Raqqa campaign?
  • The overview map from 2012 is outdated, it could be replaced with this one (also US gov.), but it would be great to make it more readable. At the very least make the color "Areas hosting displaced Syrians" more prominent.
  • Extend the section on Iraq based on this and this. (in particular, mention the number of Syrian refugees compared to the number of Iraqi IDPs, mention 96% are in the Kurdistan Region).
  • Update the numbers in the top table (Italy looks low, for example?) and increase the threshold to cut the table, as this allows to place more interesting tables and figures later.
  • Update the info on returns based on e.g. this.

Tokenzero (talk) 19:18, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Other suggestions:

Country country section - Turkey

I believe that this section of the article is doing a poor job about explaining the strategies of Turkey to host close to 3 million refugees. Instead of epxlaining the policies and how they were able to host so many refugees the article focuses on human rights violations done by the Turkish troops at the border and the fake lifejackets produced by a Turkish citizen. These are relevant information but is not the main point of this article. I believe that this part should contain more about how Turkey hosted close to 3 million refugees unlike any country in the world. According to the world bank article, Turkey was able to host so many refugees because 1) they adapted a non-camp policy and 2) the approach was financed by the government. In other countries refugees are usually sent to camps financed by humanitarian agencies.(World Bank) In addition to this, Turkey has produced some of the most important social media posts about the refugee crisis that raised awareness to this issue around the world but it is not present in the article. Just like may refugees, Alan Kurdi, a 3 year old Syrian boy was on a inflatable boat in the coasts of Turkey trying to go to Greece and Europe. Just like many other refugees Alan lost his life during this journey and his dead body was found on the shore at Bodrum, a city in the Aegean coast of Turkey. The dead body of Alan on the beach was published on social media and became viral immediately. This event raised awareness to the refugee crisis and the drowning of the refugees trying to go to Greece. I think that this is a very important part of this topic and should be added to the Turkey section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CanKaya1 (talk • contribs) 05:30, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

"financed by the (turkish) government" ? - Other Nations pay Turkey money for hosting the refugees. 5 Billion Euros from the EU alone.[9] And Alan Kurdis father had a job in Turkey and chose freely to take the risk to go to Greece. Because he wanted to go to Canada (afair). I dont see what changes you really want in the article. Alexpl (talk) 11:49, 27 February 2019 (UTC)


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The article should be restructured in a way in which all of the information could be easily tied back together. It felt like I was reading an article and then came to an abrupt stop. I would add an additional paragraph describing any current efforts at providing aid to the refugees. I would also elaborate more on the "Returns" section - why is this important? What were the repercussions of this? Another suggestion would be providing more information for certain countries in the article, such as Norway and Poland or even potentially remove them from the article if they are not strengthening the case. For the "Public Opinion" section, I would make it clear as to where the opinions are coming from (seems to be the United States). The article could potentially include a section about how social media affects this cause. Jhammer.ucb (talk) 21:53, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Any extensions welcome :) Some things to keep in mind: there were almost no updates since mid-2017, so some info may be quite outdated – especially Returns, yes, and as you say a broader discussion might also help there (but even just going over the article and updating it from UNHCR reports would be very valuable). In keeping the article coherent there are three main difficulties. One is the fact that the situation in 3RP is incomparable to the rest of the world (obviously larger numbers in 3RP, but on the other hand readers are understandably more interested about refugees in their–usually Western–countries). Two: often some discussion applies equally well to non-Syrian refugees. So just be aware about which region and which crisis you want to cover; perhaps the Overall Situation should be split into the regions (3RP/non-3RP or Europe/NA/...). Three: the sources are almost exclusively either news articles (added randomly on the fly - be bold and remove any you find unnecessary!) or UNHCR reports - the latter are very good, but some other good sources would be welcome, especially books. (Personally I'm missing more about the refugees themselves, like maybe refugees who became notable or their own group initiatives.)
Finally the article is getting horribly long, though splitting it is hard. There are already stubs for Jordan and Egypt, Europe has the even longer European migrant crisis and a few related ones, and it's hard to make the structure of all that clear. On the other hand e.g. USA deserves a separate article already, so it's basically just a matter of cutting it out, shaping it up slightly to make a new article and writing a short summary here. The only problem is to synchronise it with Asylum in the United States, since much of the resulting article could be about refugees in general.
Eventually I believe we should also cut all individual per country reactions (including specific per country help efforts, politics, opinions and the raw numbers, which are essentially political decisions) into a separate article. A step towards it would be to write a summary covering all countries (or e.g. one region among the current top-level sections) for any single topic: this topic could be anything from "help efforts" (like overall discussion, or tables and charts or just a few representative examples) to "social media". So even if it now may seem like adding such a section will make the article unbearably long, it will help in the long run. Tokenzero (talk) 21:05, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

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