This news segments demonstrate how refugees use social media to make their journey into Europe. Many will use apps like Facebook and WhatsApp to communicate with friends and family members and help them prepare by letting them know what they should bring and which smugglers and border crossings are safe and reliable. However, some smugglers are also using social media to deceive refugees and get them to pay thousands of dollars for perilous journeys. 

This video presents the 10 countries with the most foreign-born immigrants: 1. United States, 2. Russia, 3. Germany, 4. Saudi Arabia, 5. United Arab Emirates, 6. United Kingdom, 7. France, 8. Canada, 9. Australia, 10. Spain

*Note: The video lists Puerto Rico as one of the areas where the United States receives the highest number of immigrants. However, Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, and people from Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens.

*WARNING: This video contains a graphic, upsetting image.

A Syrian boy washed up on the beach in Turkey after his boat sank became the symbol for the refugee in crisis in Europe in 2015. This video describes the plight that refugees face as they make the dangerous journey to Germany, Sweden, and other countries in Europe that have accepted large numbers of displaced people. 

This video describes immigration trends in Germany in 2012-2013. In those years, Germany had the second highest rate of immigration (after the United States). Many immigrants come from countries in southern Europe, such as Italy or Greece, to escape high rates of youth unemployment. 

In this video, thousands of refugees are greeted as they enter Germany and Austria by train. However, it also highlights how many refugees don't ever make it to Northern/Western Europe, as many of them end up in Hungarian "alien holding centers" and sent back over the border into Serbia.

This video demonstrates the chaos that meets refugees who enter Hungary. The refugees depicted in this video are forced to spend the night at Keleti station in Budapest. Some Hungarian citizens are hostile towards them while others attempt to help by providing food and entertainment for children.  

David Miliband, former British foreign secretary and current president and chief executive officer of the International Rescue Committee, offers strategies for how to solve the refugee crisis. Those strategies include allowing refugees to work, educating child refugees, and supporting the countries that host refugees. Miliband describes the refugee crisis as global, which means it requires a "global solution."

This video describes the rise of right wing political parties in Europe as a result of the turmoil associated with the current refugee crisis. These political leaders play off the fear that European culture will be erased as more people enter the continent. The video points to examples, such as in Sweden, where violence has escalated because of tensions between refugees/migrants and individuals originally from Sweden. 

It's important to note that CBN (the Christian Broadcasting Network) is a far right-leaning news network that presents stories from a conservative perspective. Most of the people interviewed express anti-immigration and anti-multiculturalism viewpoints. 

Gavin Lee interviews a refugee from Syria who describes how he's using his cell phone to reach Germany. Lee notes that—in addition to food and water—refugees are often provided with places to charge their phones. Mobile devices have become an essential item for refugees and migrants because they enable them to communicate with the people assisting them on their journey and provide them with alternative routes. 

This video criticizes the world response to the current refugee crisis, especially from richer, more developed countries that have resisted taking in refugees from Syria and several other countries in the midst of war and political unrest. 

This video explains the difference between migrants and refugees. It also highlights that the majority of people seeking entry into Europe are refugees and not migrants. 

This video, from TED-Ed, explain the term refugee—particularly in relation to the word migrant—and describe the difficult journey that refugees experience as they flee their home countries. 

In this segment of Inside Story, Mike Hanna discusses the difference between the terms "migrant" and "refugee" with Gauri Van Gulik, deputy director for Amnesty International in Europe and Central Asia; Adrian Berry, chair of the Immigration Practitioners' Association; and Francois Gemenne, research fellow from the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies. Refugees are people who have fled persecution in their home countries, while migrants are people who seek better opportunities. Refugees have the right to seek asylum, and they cannot be deported to their home countries. Van Gulik, Berry, and Gemenne believe that European government officials will often use the word "migrant" to describe people fleeing their home countries to release themselves from the responsibility of helping them.