Refugees and migrants sit next to tents at the Souda municipality run camp on the Greek island of Chios on September 7. (Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters)In the midst of the greatest migration upheaval since the end of World War II, world leaders will gather Monday in New York for a major United Nations summit on the global refugee crisis. Through the end of September 2015, the organization reported that 470,000 migrants and refugees had arrived in Europe and that an additional 2,900 had died while attempting the journey. In August, approximately 3,400 migrants arrived in Greece by sea, the highest number since April, the month that immediately followed the signing of the deal. According to Elizabeth Collett, director of the Brussels-based Migration Policy Institute Europe, it is not the numbers that present an issue.

Source: Washington Post September 17, 2016 09:56 UTC