What were some times when people migrated to other countries because they were escaping a war?
2007-02-22 15:05:12 · 4 answers · asked by D&G34 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Americans heading to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft.
Ugandans heading to Zaire to avoid conscription into militant groups.
There's tons of examples.
2007-02-22 15:12:30 · answer #1 · answered by csucdartgirl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Europeans immigrated to the colonies to escape religious wars. Jews migrated from Germany to many countries when they could to avoid annihilation.
2007-02-22 23:12:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This had been happening in Iraq since the U.S. invasion started. Now, it had become more alarming. More than two million Iraqis had fled the country, and more Iraqi citizens are fleeing at the rate of more than a hundred-thousand every day. The Iraqi refugee problem is now an enormous humanitarian catastrophe. Both Syria and Jordan had already sealed their borders with Iraq to prevent further flow of refugees (each had already nearly a million refugees apiece in their soil, accomodated on tents built in temporary settlements along the border). The U.S. only accepted entry of 466 Iraqi refugees into the U.S. since the war started in 2003.
2007-02-23 08:58:56 · answer #3 · answered by roadwarrior 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of Europeans fled to America to avoid fighting in the Napoleonic Wars
2007-02-22 23:17:29 · answer #4 · answered by warhorse 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋