Word Finder - refugee

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A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in their home country, i.e., a person seeking political asylum.

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A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster, war, etc.

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A person formally granted political or economic asylum by a country other than their home country.

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(by extension) A person who flees one place or institution for another.

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To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.

He also conquered the land of Asnunnak and carried off from Padan a stela belonging to a refugee from Malatia.

She is currently voluntary support worker for the North East Refugee Service.

Gouverneur Morris's father, Lewis Morris (1698-1762), closed a long public career as judge of the vice-admiralty court of New York; his mother was descended from a French Protestant refugee, who had come to America to escape the persecution of Louis XIV.

Another department taken in hand was that of education; and the success which attended the opening of schools in the refugee camps was most striking.

It may be said to begin with the arrival in 1620 of a small company including William Brewster, elder of the refugee church in Leiden, which founded Plymouth in the modern Massachusetts in the winter of that year.

They seek refugee status in another country by lodging an asylum application.

You can't turn away a genuine refugee fleeing persecution.

A few from the refugee camps in France have made perilous trips to gain entry to the United Kingdom.

Includes recommendations to the Home Office and guidelines for the voluntary sector working with refugee women.

She visits refugee camps around the world and has been named a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.

By May the mullah had been driven out of the British protectorate and became a refugee among the Mijertin.

From 1848 until the completion of Italian unity in 1870, his whole activity was devoted to the Risorgimento, as Garibaldian officer, political refugee, anti-Austrian conspirator and deputy to parliament.

Education Refugee Week Refugee Week is a nation wide program of events that promotes understanding about refugees.

They may also have complex needs, for example unaccompanied refugee young people frequently fall within the 16 to 19 age group.

Rosanna, Patricia, and David Arquette - These siblings' mother is Jewish, and the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland.

Jolie, who is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, indicated that the Afghan refugee crisis is not yet over.

They get six dinars apiece from the refugee commission.

The subjects covered include induction, home/school liaison, combating racism, and the psychological adaption of refugee young people.

International Development Secretary Clare Short in the UK has announced fifteen million pounds in humanitarian aid for the refugee crisis.

Previous refugee reports claimed that ethnic Albanians were burned alive in their homes.

Every unit was fully equipped to receive an Iraqi refugee family.

We then went into Balata refugee camp where we saw the real handiwork of the IDF.

One wonders how his somewhat hyperbolic analogy went down in the refugee camps.

Turkey has said that its troops would enter northern Iraq to prevent a refugee influx from the area.

These organizations are involved in helping refugee integration, either directly or indirectly.

Covering induction, home/school liaison, combating racism, and the psychological adaptation of refugee young people.

Tackle racism A school and its surrounding area need to be a safe place for refugee parents and pupils to come.

Refugee children may display a preoccupation with powerful elements of their experiences in their play.

If there is only one banana in your hand, will you give it to a starving African refugee or a lovely chimpanzee?

He had been recognized by a Kurdish refugee at a Danish language school for refugees.

Her other ongoing projects include research about deaf people's use of the internet and Somali refugee and asylum seeker children.

A Kosovar Albanian refugee claimed that Serb forces executed 12 ethnic Albanians on 5 April.

I hold Swedish and German nationality but was born stateless, as my father was a political refugee from Germany.

In which Gilbert is contacted by a fantastically wealthy refugee who wants to invest in the hotel business.

He was descended from Gaston Martineau, a Huguenot surgeon and refugee, who married in 1693 Marie Pierre, and settled soon afterwards in Norwich.

We may also face a refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale.

In general body lice infestations occur in crowded, unsanitary facilities, such as prisons and military or refugee camps.

There is a refugee in the basement who is considered a bit of a prankster.

A refugee Pole, Zamosz, taught him mathematics, and a young Jewish physician was his tutor in Latin.

A coolness with Calvin was created by Farel's marriage, at the age of sixty-nine, with a refugee widow from Rouen, of unsuitable age.

In July 1536 a French refugee, John Calvin, came to Geneva for a night, but was detained by Farel who found in him a powerful helper.

In all cases, host government concurrence is required for refugee processing on foreign territory.

Le Monde reports refugee convoys without men have begun to arrive in Macedonia.

Refugee centers were under the supervision of hygiene officers & toilet rooms were organized with walls, floors & bedding regularly disinfected.

It was the scene of a massive refugee exodus following an uprising against Saddam that was crushed in 1991.

Besides travelling through many states of the United States to deliver anti-slavery lectures, Lundy visited Haiti twice - in 1825 and 1829, the Wilberforce colony of freedmen and refugee slaves in Canada in 1830-1831, and in 1832 and again in 1833 Texas, all these visits being made, in part, to find a suitable place outside the United States to which emancipated slaves might be sent.

This defect appears most strongly in his treatment of Joan of Arc; and the attack on Agnes Sorel seems to have been dictated by the dauphin (afterwards Louis XI.), then a refugee in Burgundy, of whom he was afterwards to become a severe critic. He was not, however, misled, as his more picturesque predecessor Froissart had been, by feudal and chivalric tradition into misconception of the radical injustice of the English cause in France; and except in isolated instances where Burgundian interests were at stake, he did full justice to the patriotism of Frenchmen.

When news of this affair had reached Paris, the pope sent the general of the Minorites, Gerard Odonis, accompanied by a Dominican, to sustain his doctrine in that city, but King Philip VI., perhaps at the instigation of the refugee Spirituals in Paris, referred the question to the faculty of theology, which, on the 2nd of January 1 333, declared that the souls of the blessed were elevated to the beatific vision immediately after death; the faculty, nevertheless, were of opinion that the pope should have propounded his erroneous doctrine only "recitando," and not "determinando, asserendo, sed etiam opinando."

Her other ongoing projects include research about deaf people 's use of the internet and Somali refugee and asylum seeker children.

Perhaps the most worrying aspect is the granting of refugee status for only 5 years, at which point there will be a review.