asylum seeking
Fleeing toward protection
Asylum seeking is the act of requesting protection in a foreign country, typically by someone fleeing persecution, war, or violence in their home country.
An asylum seeker has applied for refugee status but hasn't yet received a decision: The asylum-seeking process can take years.
The term appears frequently in immigration debates, often as an adjective: asylum-seeking families at the border.
- biometric screeningIdentity check via body features
- war zonesAreas of active fighting
- Geneva ConventionWartime humanitarian law treaties
- refugee campsTemporary housing for displaced persons
- safe passageProtected transit through danger
displacement · international solidarity · statelessness · forced migration · eligibility criteria · home office · family reunification · new life · human rights law · immigration law · temporary protection · ethnic cleansing · legal representation · appeal process · legal limbo · trauma recovery · human trafficking · border control
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- refugeesrefugee camps, refugee camp, displaced persons, refugee status, refugee policy
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- seekingsearch, hunt, quest, pursuit, inquiry
- defectiondefection, defect, defector, turncoat, desertion
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
asylum seekingtourism
Leisure travel sector
leisure travel · deportation · repatriation · business travel · retirement abroad
asylum seekingdeportation
Legal expulsion from country
repatriation · expulsion · extradition · removal · banishment
asylum seekingstaying home
Not going out
rootedness · citizenship · residency · belonging · safe haven
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