Immigration and Emigration - GED Social Studies

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A person who has fled some disaster—natural or political—in his or her home country and now lives abroad is called a(n)                     .

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A refugee is someone who has either been forced to leave or else has fled some disaster—famine, poverty, genocide, religious warfare, etc. A refugee leaves his or her own country and heads for a willing country believed to be safer. Different countries around the world have widely varied practices when it comes to accepting refugees. The diaspora is the name given to a community of displaced people, e.g. the Jewish Diaspora.

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