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Migration and Home Affairs

Definition(s)

  • In the global context, the movement of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters.
  • In the EU context, the movement of third-country nationals or stateless persons who have had to leave their country or region of origin, or have been evacuated, in particular in response to an appeal by international organisations, and are unable to return in safe and durable conditions because of the situation prevailing in that country, who may fall within the scope of Article 1A of the Geneva Refugee Convention and Protocol or other international or national instruments giving international protection, in particular:
    (i) persons who have fled areas of armed conflict or endemic violence;
    (ii) persons at serious risk of, or who have been the victims of, systematic or generalised violations of their human rights.

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  • BG: Разселване
  • CS: vysídlení
  • DE: Vertreibung
  • EL: εκτόπιση/ εκτοπισμός
  • EN: displacement
  • ES: Desplazamiento
  • ET: sundränne
  • FI: siirtymään joutuminen
  • FR: déplacement
  • GA: easáitiú
  • HR: raseljavanje
  • HU: lakhelyelhagyás / lakóhely elhagyása
  • IT: Sfollamento
  • LT: perkėlimas
  • LV: pārvietošana
  • MT: Spostament
  • NL: verplaatsing / ontheemding / verdrijving
  • PL: przesiedlenie
  • PT: deslocação
  • RO: strămutarea forțată a populației / strămutarea
  • SK: vysídlenie
  • SL: razselitev
  • SV: fördrivning
  • NO: fordrivelse (b); fordriving (n)
  • KA: (იძულებითი) გადაადგილება
  • UK: переміщення
  • HY: տեղահանում

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