Giving Compass' Take:

• This YES! Magazine post examines how Germany, Serbia, and Sweden addressed hosting tens of thousands of migrants three years ago — and what the US may be able to learn.

• What can funders do to work with policymakers in addressing immigration, considering the costs and the humanitarian crisis that's often involved?

• Here are five practices to build immigration consensus in a divided world.

Not long ago, the world watched heartbreaking images of fleeing refugees, not unlike those now emerging from the southern U.S. border.

Within months, beginning in 2015, more than 1 million migrants and asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, and Africa had crossed the Mediterranean Sea into Europe — some escaping war and violence, some seeking work — and their numbers overwhelmed the continent.

And now, as thousands of Central American refugees from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala continue to surge toward the U.S.-Mexico border, it’s worth noting important similarities to how European countries responded to its migrant crisis, the impact of which is still being felt there.

“It really is kind of a search for survival, economic survival, political survival,” says Dr. Kathie Friedman, associate professor at University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

Like the Central Americans coming to the U.S. border, those arriving on Europe’s doorstep also did so en masse. Some experts hesitate to call it the “new normal.”

Read the full article about Europe's history with migration and what it can tell the US by Deonna Anderson at YES! Magazine.