forced migration
Involuntary population movement
Forced migration is the involuntary movement of people from their homes, typically due to conflict, persecution, natural disaster, or government policy.
Unlike voluntary migration for economic opportunity, forced migration happens under duress: Millions fled in the largest forced migration since World War II.
The term encompasses refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons.
Historically, forced migration includes the transatlantic slave trade and ethnic cleansings.
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- refugee campsTemporary housing for displaced persons
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- displacementRemoval from usual location
fleeing violence · exile · psychological trauma · statelessness · conflict · Geneva Convention · Rohingya · war · internal displacement · refugee crisis · diaspora · political instability · human trafficking · Trail of Tears · humanitarian aid · new beginning · resettlement programs · homeland
- migrationimmigrants, refugees, emigrant, immigrant, refugee
- colonial historycolonization, colonies, pilgrims, Jamestown, Plymouth
- diasporaAfrican diaspora, exiles, Irish diaspora, emigrants, Jewish diaspora
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, displacing, uprooting, eviction
- Indian RemovalIndian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Indian Territory, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren
- refugeesrefugee camps, refugee camp, displaced persons, refugee status, refugee policy
forced migrationfree movement
Unrestricted ability to travel
economic migration · labor migration · chain migration · brain drain · study abroad
forced migrationstaying put
Remaining in place
settlement · rootedness · repatriation · homecoming · sedentariness
force, migration, evacuation, migrant, relocation, immigration, migratory, expulsion, emigration