page_title: Refugee crisis
section_title: The Partition of 1947
hierarchical_section_title: Refugee crisis / Modern and contemporary refugee crises / Asia / India / The Partition of 1947
caption_attribution_description: English: Overcrowded train transferring refugees during the partition of India, 1947. This was considered to be the largest migration in human history.
context_page_description: Refugee crisis can refer to difficulties and dangerous situations in the reception of large groups of forcibly displaced persons. These could be either internally displaced, refugees, asylum seekers or any other huge groups of migrants.
  A crisis could occur within the country, while attempting to leave, or while on the move to a safe country, or even after arrival in a country of asylum. A situation can be called a crisis, either from the perspective of the forcibly displaced persons, or from the perspective of the receiving state, or both.
  According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, as of January 2019, 70.8 million had been displaced worldwide.
  In 2016, an estimated 362,000 refugees crossed the Mediterranean Sea in attempts to reach Europe due to dangers in their home countries. In the first half of 2017, over 105,000 refugees and migrants entered Europe through the Mediterranean. On 27, September, 2019 a boat carrying at least 19 people destined for Chios Island capsized and seven people were killed, including five children and two women. As of 2019, 63,311 people had crossed the Mediterranean towards Europe and at least 1,028 people had died as a result of drowning.
context_section_description: The partition of the British Raj provinces of Punjab and Bengal and the subsequent independence of Pakistan and one day later of India in 1947 resulted in the largest human movement in history. In this population exchange, approximately 7 million Hindus and Sikhs from Bangladesh and Pakistan moved to India while approximately 7 million Muslims from India moved to Pakistan. Approximately one million Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs died during this event.
caption: Overcrowded train transferring refugees during the partition of India, 1947. This was considered to be the largest migration in human history.
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