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A displaced person (sometimes abbreviated DP) is a person who has been forced to leave his or her native place, a phenomenon known as forced migration. Forced migration (also called deracination) refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their Home or home Region.

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Origin of term

The term was first widely used during World War II and the resulting refugee outflows from Eastern Europe, when it was used to specifically refer to one removed from his or her native country as a refugee, prisoner or a slave laborer. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Eastern Europe is a general term that refers to the Geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the European continent. According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for those work relations especially in modern or early modern history in which people are employed against their will The meaning has significantly broadened in the past half-century. A displaced person may also be referred to as a forced migrant. The term "refugee" is also commonly used as a synonym for displaced person, causing confusion between the general descriptive class of anyone who has left their home and the subgroup of legally defined refugees who enjoy specified international legal protection. According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race

International law aspects

Main articles: Refugee law and Refugee

If the displaced person has crossed an international border and falls under one of the relevant international legal instruments, they are considered a refugee. Refugee law is the branch of International law which deals with the rights and protection of related to but distinct from International human rights law and According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race Refugee law is the branch of International law which deals with the rights and protection of related to but distinct from International human rights law and According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race A forced migrant who left his or her home because of political persecution or violence, but did not cross an international border, is commonly considered to be the less well-defined category of internally displaced person (IDP), and is subject to more tenuous international protection. Internally displaced persons (IDPs are people forced to flee their homes but who unlike refugees remain within their country's borders The forced displacement of a number of refugees or internally displaced persons according to an identifiable policy is an example of population transfer. According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race Internally displaced persons (IDPs are people forced to flee their homes but who unlike refugees remain within their country's borders Population transfer is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion A displaced person who crosses an international border without permission from the country they are entering is an illegal immigrant. The most visible recent case of this is the large number of North Koreans who have settled in the border region of China. North Korea is the commonly used short form name for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) a State located in East Asia, China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National

A migrant who fled because of economic hardship is an economic migrant. According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race A special sub-set of this is development-induced displacement, in which the forced migrant was forced out their home because of economically-driven projects like that of the Three Gorges Dam in China and various Indian dams. Development-induced displacement is the forcing of communities and individuals out of their homes often also their homelands for the purposes of Economic development. Zh-yue三峽大壩 The Three Gorges Dam ( is a hydroelectric River Dam that spans the Yangtze River in Sandouping, China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country The internally displaced person generally refers to one who is forced to migrate for reasons other than economic conditions, such as war or persecution. There is a body of opinion that holds that persons subject to development-induced displacement should have greater legal protection than that granted economic migrants. Development-induced displacement is the forcing of communities and individuals out of their homes often also their homelands for the purposes of Economic development. According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race

Persons are often displaced due to natural or man-made disasters. A natural disaster is the consequence of a Natural hazard (eg No specific international legal instrument applies to such individuals, though their welfare remains the responsibility of the state to which they are citizens. Foreign nations often offer disaster relief to mitigate the effects of such disaster displacement.

Following the effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the term "refugee" was sometimes used to describe people displaced by the storm and the aftereffects. Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States There was an outcry that the term should not be used to describe Americans displaced within their own county, and the term "evacuee" was substituted in its place.

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displaced person

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  1. a refugee, especially of war or of forced migration
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