During the summer of 2015, Europe faced an unimaginable situation. UNHCR had earlier in the year reported that the number of displaced persons of concern to the organization had reached unprecedented levels with close to 60 million forcibly displaced persons globally, of whom 20 million were refugees and 2 million asylum seekers. The massive displacement remained, however, abstract to most people in the West, even though fundraising campaigns were organized in support of the millions in encampments in the countries surrounding Syria, and horror images were shown on television of the atrocities committed by the black-hooded men of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.