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A '''displaced person''' (sometimes abbreviated '''DP''') is a person who has been forced to leave his or her native place, a phenomenon known as [[forced migration]].
== Origin of term ==
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The term was first widely used during [[World War II]] and the resulting refugee outflows from [[Eastern Europe]], when it was used to specifically refer to one removed from his or her native country as a [[refugee]], [[Prison|prisoner]] or a [[unfree labour|slave laborer]]. The meaning has significantly broadened in the past half-century. A displaced person may also be referred to as a '''forced migrant'''. The term "refugee" is also commonly used as a synonym for displaced person, causing confusion between the general descriptive class of anyone who has left their home and the subgroup of legally defined [[refugee]]s who enjoy specified international legal protection.
== International law aspects ==
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If the displaced person has crossed an international border and falls under one of the [[Refugee Law|relevant international legal instruments]], they are considered a [[refugee]]. A forced migrant who left his or her home because of political persecution or violence, but did not cross an international border, is commonly considered to be the less well-defined category of [[internally displaced person]] (IDP), and is subject to more tenuous international protection. The forced displacement of a number of [[refugee]]s or [[internally displaced person]]s according to an identifiable policy is an example of [[population transfer]]. A displaced person who crosses an international border without permission from the country they are entering is an illegal immigrant. The most visible recent case of this is the large number of [[North Korea]]ns who have settled in the border region of [[China]].
A migrant who fled because of economic hardship is an [[economic migrant]]. A special sub-set of this is [[development-induced displacement]], in which the forced migrant was forced out their home because of economically-driven projects like that of the [[Three Gorges Dam]] in [[China]] and various [[India]]n dams. The internally displaced person generally refers to one who is forced to migrate for reasons other than economic conditions, such as war or persecution. There is a body of opinion that holds that persons subject to [[development-induced displacement]] should have greater legal protection than that granted [[economic migrant]]s.
Persons are often displaced due to [[natural disaster|natural]] or man-made disasters. No specific international legal instrument applies to such individuals, though their welfare remains the responsibility of the state to which they are citizens. Foreign nations often offer disaster relief to mitigate the effects of such disaster displacement.
Following the effects of [[Hurricane Katrina]] in 2005, the term "refugee" was sometimes used to describe people displaced by the storm and the aftereffects. There was an outcry that the term should not be used to describe Americans displaced within their own county, and the term "evacuee" was substituted in its place.
== See also ==
* [[Displaced persons camp]]: DP camps following World War II
* [[Earl G. Harrison]]'s "Report on DPs in Western Europe in 1945" to U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]]
* April 1986 [[Chernobyl disaster]] created over 336,000 internally displaced persons
==External links==
* [http://www.jmclajot.net Pictures of Refugees in Europe] - Features by Jean-Michel Clajot, Belgian photographer
* [http://www.missionandjustice.org/?cat=2 Mission and Justice] Refugee and Migrant news relating to the Asia - Pacific region.
* [http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/ Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford]
* [http://www.forcedmigration.org/ Forced Migration Online]
* [http://www.fmreview.org/ Forced Migration Review] world's most widely read magazine on displacement issues: published in four languages
* [http://www.iasfm.org International Association for the Study of Forced Migration]
* [http://jrs.oupjournals.org/ The Journal of Refugee Studies] from [[Oxford University]]
* [http://www.ryanspencerreed.com/ Photojournalist's Account] - Images of displacement in Sudan
* [http://www.internal-displacement.org/ Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Norwegian Refugee Council]
*[http://www.womenscommission.org Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children]
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