Refugee Research Vocabulary

To treat (someone) cruelly or unfairly especially because of race or religious or political beliefs.

• Asylum

• Refugee

• Migration

• Persecution

Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

• Culture

• Assimilation

• Settlement

• Persecution

Done or experienced by everyone.

• Assimilate

• Asylum

• Universal

• Migration

Protection given by a government to someone who has left another country in order to escape being harmed.

• Migration

• Asylum

• Refugee

• Settlement

To go from one country, region, or place to another.

• Migration

• Settlement

• Persecution

• Universal

When a person adopts the ways of another culture and fully becomes part of a different society, country, etc.

• Asylum

• Refugee

• Settlement

• Assimilate

The act or process of moving to a new area or place to live there.

• Migration

• Settlement

• Persecution

• Universal

To go from one country, region, or place to another.

• Settlement

• Assimilation

• Migration

• Culture