displaced residents
People forced out
Displaced residents are people forced to leave their homes, typically by disasters, conflicts, development projects, or economic pressures.
The term appears frequently in news coverage and policy discussions: The hurricane left thousands of displaced residents in emergency shelters.
Unlike refugees, displaced residents may remain within their own country or even their own city, simply unable to return to their original housing.
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- evacueesPeople removed from danger
- safe passageProtected transit through danger
- homelessWithout a dwelling
- tent citiesClusters of temporary shelters
uprooted · migrants · shelter · camps · emergency shelter · makeshift homes · fleeing · asylum · host country · relocation · crisis · families · temporary · housing · exile · war · flood · disaster
- floodsflood damage, flood warning, deluge, flood warnings, flash floods
- weather damagestorm damage, wind damage, hail damage, flood damage, tornado damage
displaced residentsoriginal inhabitants
First to occupy land
old-timers · native population · indigenous population · locals · local residents
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