Summary:
This article discusses about the main reason of the wave of migrants seeking sanctuary from Iraq, Syria and so on in EU. For refugees, they said it was personal or just coincidental.
However, perhaps the main reason is that German government's promise last month to take all Syrian asylum(庇護) applications, no matter how they reach Germany. Under EU rules on migration, a refugee can only claim asylum in the EU country he enter first. It means that the refugees only can apply an asylum in the less prosperous nations of south and eastern Europe. Merkel made a promise, and gave a hope for Syrians who have fled their homeland. This year, Germany expect to receive 800,000 claims for asylum.
In the end, there are many refugees who want to rush to Germany are from the countries that are not afflicted with war or persecution, and therefore don't qualify for the benefits and protections of asylum.
Original link:
http://time.com/4023186/refugees-migration-reasons/?xid=newsletter-brief
