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Germany calling McKinsey to help with refugee crisis

September 22, 2015

Police escort migrants through the countryside after they cross the border near the Hungarian village of Zákány on their way to Germany. — ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images

Management consultants reportedly would help speed the processing of migrants.

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Refugees bring in big business in Europe

By Kai Ryssdal, Mukta Mohan, and Bridget Bodnar

September 15, 2015

Syrian refugees and migrants walk along a highway on Tuesday on their way to the border between Turkey and Greece in the northwestern Turkish city of Edirne. — BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images

The mass migration has created unlikely opportunities.

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Refugee crisis is bad in Europe, but worse elsewhere

By Tracey Samuelson

September 11, 2015

Syrian children look on from a window during a sandstorm at a refugee camp in a Lebanon village. — AFP/Getty Images

Most of Syria's 4 million registered refugees are in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon.

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Germany accepts more refugees to the dismay of some

September 10, 2015

A Syrian refugee with his child looks for necessities at the "Bayernkaserne" in Munich — a place where donations for migrants and refugees have been collected. — CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images

Cities struggle to keep up with the record number of refugees.

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Quotas are just one hurdle refugees face

By Annie Baxter

September 10, 2015

Syrian refugees outside the German Embassy in Lebanon on Thursday. President Obama is pushing for the U.S. to accept at least 10,000 Syrian refugees this year. — JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images

What are the steps to join the resettlement program?

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The cost of misery: migrants in Europe

By Sabri Ben-Achour

September 09, 2015

A Syrian man at an unofficial refugee camp in the area of Arida, north of Beirut, in June . — JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images

Accepting refugees isn't much of an economic threat.

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Migrant crisis continues on Hungary's border

September 09, 2015

Syrian and Afghan refugees attend a protest rally outside a railway station in Budapest to demand travel to Germany. — FERENC ISZA/AFP/Getty Images

The BBC spends the day at a holding camp in Roszke.

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One woman's journey from Syria to Sweden

By James Reynolds

September 02, 2015

Nour Ammar, 20, is trying to seek asylum in Sweden. — Courtesy BBC

Listen to Nour Ammar's story as she travels the road to asylum.

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Migrants attempt to jump trains from France to Britain

By Marketplace staff

July 30, 2015

A man climbs a barrier on the side of a road leading to the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles on July 30, 2015 in Calais, France. Hundreds of migrants are continuing to attempt to enter the Channel Tunnel and onto trains heading to the United Kingdom. — Rob Stothard/Getty Images

The crisis in Calais seems to be coming to a head.

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