political refugees
Fled oppressive regimes
Political refugees are people who flee their home country to escape persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular group.
The term carries legal weight under international law, distinguishing those with valid asylum claims from economic migrants: The camp housed political refugees from the civil war.
Countries may grant refugee status after determining that return would mean imprisonment, torture, or death.
- integration challengesDifficulties combining separate elements
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- trauma recoveryRegaining stability after damage
- asylumShelter from persecution
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
homesickness · authoritarianism · freedom of speech · Geneva Convention · civil war · censorship · human rights violations · xenophobia · humanitarian aid · emergency relief · cultural adaptation · statelessness · medical assistance · coup d'état · identity papers · visa denial · new beginning · resettlement programs
- Cold War EscapeBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, Checkpoint Charlie, escape attempts, defection
- migrationmigration, immigrants, immigration, emigration, migrants
- diasporaAfrican diaspora, exiles, Irish diaspora, emigrants, Jewish diaspora
- Dissentprotest art, civil disobedience, dissidents, protest songs, protest poetry
- dissidentsdissident, dissidents, dissenter, rebel, Sakharov
- emigrationemigrant, emigration, economic migrants, emigre, expat
political refugeeseconomic migrants
Those moving for work
expatriates · digital nomads · expats · guest workers · tourists
political, politics, politic, politically, politicize, politicized, politicization, politician, politicians