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displaced person
(redirected from Forced migrant)

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displaced person: see refugee refugee, one who leaves one's native land either because of expulsion or to escape persecution. The legal problem of accepting refugees is discussed under asylum; this article considers only mass dislocations and the organizations that help refugees.
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displaced person
a person forced from his home or country, esp by war or revolution


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Borders play a prominent role in forced migration today; definitions of categories of forced migrants, such as refugees and internally displaced people, policies of interdiction and extraterritorial processing, and metaphors of "fortresses" and free-movement, all rely upon the notion of a border.
Forced migration conference in Nicosia by Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)
Chumak said the tighter security measures had forced migrants to seek other, safer routes into the EU.
Migrants dreaming of EU safety trapped at Ukrainian border by AFP / AFP Global Edition
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) said that the gangmaster involved has had his licence revoked, adding that he had forced migrants to live in cramped conditions, while paying over the odds, as a condition of finding them work.
Gangmaster's licence revoked as migrants found in cramped room by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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