Contributing factors to German migrant crisis

Abstract

Since the escalation of conflicts in Syria and other states in the region, there have been numbers of European states that have been receiving numbers of asylum seekers, including Germany. After the war escalation in Syria in 2015, Germany has received more than 1 million people who are seeking for safety mostly from Syria and other war-torn countries. Even so, this writing will focus on the Syrian asylum seekers as the numbers of Syrians who are looking for asylum are bigger compared to any other country. The main purpose of this research is to determine what factors contributing to the so-called migrant crisis in Germany which started in 2015.To answer the research question of this writing, I examined different case studies relating to the migrant crisis in Germany. This includes examining pushing and pulling factors which influence people to come to Germany, German legal frameworks on asylum, as well as how the migrant crisis continues unfolding in the upcoming years. Based on the data I gathered, I concluded that there are eight different factors that do contribute in the German migrant crisis. These include pushing and pulling factors of why foreign nationals seek for asylum as well as factors that come from within Europe and Germany