Definition(s)
A person subject to forced migration as a result of sudden, drastic environmental changes.
Source(s)
Derived by EMN from the definition for ‘environmental refugee’ in the UNHCR International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology
Translations
- BG: разселено лице по екологични причини
- CS: environmentální uprchlík
- DE: Umweltvertriebener
- EL: εκτοπισμένο άτομο για περιβαλλοντικούς λόγους
- EN: environmentally displaced person
- ES: población desplazada por motivos medioambientales
- ET: keskkonnapõhjustel ümberasustatud isik
- FI: ympäristötekijöiden vuoksi siirtymään joutunut
- FR: personne déplacée pour des raisons environnementales
- GA: duine easáitithe de dheasca dálaí comhshaoil
- HR: osoba raseljena zbog ekoloških razloga
- HU: lakóhelyét környezeti okból elhagyni kényszerült személy
- IT: sfollato per motivi ambientali
- LT: dėl aplinkos pokyčių priverstas persikelti asmuo
- LV: vides faktoru ietekmē pārvietota persona
- MT: Persuna sfollata għal raġunijiet ambjentali
- NL: door milieufactoren verdreven ontheemde (not commonly used in NL, BE)
- PL: osoba przesiedlona z powodu środowiska naturalnego
- PT: deslocado ambiental
- RO: persoană strămutată din cauze legate de mediul înconjurător
- SK: osoba vysídlená z environmentálnych dôvodov
- SL: okoljsko razseljena oseba
- SV: person som fördrivits på grund av miljökatastrof
- NO: person fordrevet på grunn av miljøskader (b); person fordriven på grunn av miljøskadar (n)
- KA: ეკოლოგიური მიზეზებით გადაადგილებული პირი
- UK: особа, переміщена з екологічної причини / екологічний мігрант
- HY: էկոլոգիական պաճառներով տեղահանված անձ
Synonym(s)
- environmental refugee
- environmentally-driven migrant
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Note(s)
Environmentally displaced persons are sometimes referred to as environmental refugees, but this is a misuse of the term 'refugee' as they are not refugees in the strict sense of Art. 1A of the Geneva Refugee Convention and Protocol , although their migration is forced.