Refugees in a conventional meaning are "people who have been involuntarily displaced from their homes and dispossessed of their livelihoods, normally without the protection of their own government."1 For the purpose not to confuse this meaning with the legal status of refugee, refugee in a conventional meaning is referred in this paper as Forcibly Displaced Person Refugee in a legal meaning is “someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.”2 People granted political asylum or protection may also be included in this group, though sometimes they are counted separately as political refugees in the distinction to war refugees, referring to the stated reason for seeking asylum. Being granted refugee status means not only being a forcibly displaced person, but also following the procedure of asylum application in another country, and getting the application status approved. Asylum Seeker – “is someone whose request for sanctuary has yet to be processed” (UNHCR). It is somebody, who fled to another country and followed the procedure of asylum application, but who have not been yet granted a refugee status. Internal Displaced Persons are “people who are forcibly displaced within their countries of origin or habitual residence but who have not cross an internationally recognized State border. People may be internally displaced as a result of armed conflicts, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or humanmade disasters” (UNHCR). This group of people is an example of people in refugee-like situations, not covered by UNHCR mandate. There are still many other forcibly displaced people, who are not affected by UNHCR programmes. Migration is “the residential relocation of an individual, family or group from one place to another.”3 Migration has different forms and types. Often it is classified on the base of the dominant reason for migration. Economic Migration is one of such types when the main motive of migration is improving personal or family welfare. Forced Migration is “a general term that refers to the movements of refugees and internally displaced people (those displaced by conflicts) as well as people displaced by natural or environmental disasters, chemical or nuclear disasters, famine, or development
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Gregory at Al, The Dictionary of Human Geography, 5th edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, p. 628 The 1951 Refugee Convention 3 Gregory at Al, The Dictionary of Human Geography, 5th edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, p. 462 2
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