By Katie Deighton

Whatever kooky, topical jokes can be made about 2016, it was not a funny year for the world’s refugee crisis. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and asylum seekers worldwide now exceeds 50 million, with some seven million based in Jordan, Lebanon and Pakistan alone.

This has unsurprisingly put strain on host countries both environmentally and socially, and the hostile reaction from some of the UK’s media and political institutions to the arrival of a relatively small amount of refugees is only an example of the negative perceptions that exist around mass human movement in the west.

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Source: The Drum