The internally displaced are typically close to or trapped within hazardous zones, they can get caught in the cross-fire and are at risk of being used as hostages by terrorist groups or the Assad regiment. Most internally displaced people do not have the money that it takes to get to a safer place “many times IDPs are poorer than the refugees we have seen reaching the EU's borders”. "The journey to Europe is very inconvenient, and it's not cheap so you have to have a certain level of money to do it," (Carsten