flygtning

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الدانماركية - التركية
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الدانماركية - الإنجليزية
refugee

The refugee crisis could shake up the political landscape in Germany. - Flygtningekrisen kan vende op og ned på det politiske landskab i Tyskland.

A hundred thousand Vietnamese refugees would not have been a problem. - Hundred tusind vietnamesiske flygtninge ville ikke have været et problem.

A person seeking refuge in a foreign country due to poverty and no prospect of overcoming said poverty in his home country, i.e., a person seeking an economic asylum
A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster
{n} one who flies or is driven from home
Refugees are people who have been forced to leave their homes or their country, either because there is a war there or because of their political or religious beliefs. someone who has been forced to leave their country, especially during a war, or for political or religious reasons (réfugié, past participle of réfugier , from refugium; REFUGE). Person involuntarily displaced from his or her homeland. Until the late 19th century and the emergence of fixed and closed national boundaries, refugees were always absorbed by neighbouring countries. Later, immigration restrictions and increasing numbers of refugees necessitated special action to aid them. In 1921 Fridtjof Nansen created a League of Nations Passport to allow refugees to move freely across national boundaries. Refugee status at that time was accorded only if the migrant's departure was involuntary and asylum was sought in another country. In 1938 the definition of refugee was expanded to include persons with a well-founded fear of persecution because of ethnicity, religion, nationality, group membership, or political opinion. Later the definition was expanded again to include persons who have fled from their homes to other places in their own countries. Refugee status ceases to apply when the migrant either is resettled or returns home. At the beginning of the 21st century there were some 16 million refugees, including nearly 4 million Palestinians; much of the rest of the world's refugees were in Asia (particularly Afghanistan) and Africa, though conflict in the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere in post-Cold War Europe significantly increased the number of refugees in those regions. See also International Refugee Organization; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
A person determined by INS to be outside his country of nationality and is unable to return because of persecution or fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a social group
One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety
A person who flees a country through political or religious persecution
one who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, economic hardships, war, etc
A person who flees to a foreign country to avoid persecution in his/her own country or area An environmental refugee leaves his/her country because he/she cannot survive given conditions on the land
defined in article 1 (A)2 of the 1951 Convention as a person who: owing to well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it "
a person who is forced to leave his or her home and seek safety outside of his or her own country
A noncitizen granted legal immigration status based on a claim of persecution or feared persecution in his/her home country because of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a social group Unlike asylum status, refugee status is granted to non-citizens outside the U S Refugee status lasts until terminated or until the refugee becomes a lawful permanent resident Some non-citizens in the U S because of problems in their countries are colloquially referred to as refugees, even though they may not have refugee status
"Persons recognized as refugees under the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization of African Unity (OAU) Conventions Governing Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, persons recognized as refugees in accordance with the UNHCR Statute, persons granted humanitarian or comparable status and those granted temporary protection "
a person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, i.e., a person seeking a political asylum
one who flees in search of refuge, as in times of war, political oppression, environmental destruction, or religious persecution
Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes
a person formally granted a political or economic asylum by a country other than his home country
Someone who has fled his or her country because he/she has a "well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion " (Definition used by U S Refugee Act of 1980 and the United Nations ) The definition is sometimes expanded to include people fleeing war or other armed conflict