Border restrictions narrow the options
Eleonora Vio
IRIN Contributor
Additional reporting by Kristy Siegfried, IRIN Migration Editor, and Annie Slemrod, IRIN Middle East Editor
Over the last five years, close to 4.8 million Syrians have fled the conflict in their country by crossing into Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. But as the war drags on, neighbours are sealing their borders. Forced from their homes by airstrikes and fighting on multiple fronts, the vast majority of Syrian asylum seekers now have no legal escape route.
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