What effect has migration had on modern Europe?. ​

defined categories and roles of migration formulated in the years around World War II. An estimated 1.3 million people sought asylum in the European Union (E.U.) in 2015 alone, surpassing the peak record of 670,000 following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1990s Yugoslavia conflict. Many European nations have incurred significant costs from migration movements. A small nation of 9.5 million, Sweden is expected to have taken in a number of refugees totaling nearly two percent of its population, more acceptances per capita than any other European nation. The fiscal cost of asylum seekers reached 1.0 percent of Sweden’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2016. In the same year, Denmark spent 0.57