Figure 1
From: Public debate in the media matters: evidence from the European refugee crisis
Graphical illustration of our European asylum data. (a) Distribution of asylum applications across Europe: red shades indicate the number of applications received at the height of the ‘refugee crisis’ in 2014–15. (b) Quarterly time series of applications received 2002–2016. Gray shading indicates the total number of first-time asylum applications received by the 20 European countries included in our study. Only countries that accepted substantial proportions of asylum seekers are shown in stacked bars