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Posted: September 23rd, 2016

By Leonard Doyle

Leonard Doyle is Spokesperson of the Director General at the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Europe’s migration crisis is often framed in terms of the influx of refugees coming from Syria, Afghanistan, and other conflict countries in the Middle East. However, there is also a large number of African migrants that travel across the Mediterranean Sea to Lampedusa, an Italian island, and then onto Europe. The Cipher Brief’s Kaitlin Lavinder discussed this migration pattern and Europe’s response with International Organization for Migration (IOM) Spokesperson Leonard Doyle.

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