Refugee

Who is a Refugee?

• Someone who stays in their own country

• Someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence

• Someone who leaves their country even though they are happy there

Who is an internally displaced person?

• Someone who is forced to flee their home but never cross the border

• Someone who crosses a border into another country

• Someone who never leaves their home

Who is a stateless person?

• Someone who has no home

• Someone who is not a citizen of any country

• Someone who leaves a country

Who is an asylum seeker?

• Someone who has multiple friends

• Someone who stays and tries to make peace in their own country

• Someone who flees their own country to seek peace in another country

Who is an illegal immigrant?

• People who do not have the correct paperwork to be in a country or have arrived not through the proper process

• People who leave their country and enter another country through the correct process

• People who stay on their own country