noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flood of refugees
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The UN appealed for help with the flood of refugees crossing the border.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
genuine
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Of the 64,000 people in the Hong Kong camps, only 5,000 had so far been accepted as genuine refugees .
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It is necessary to provide a proper asylum law to make sure that genuine refugees can be dealt with speedily and adequately.
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What we must do is to distinguish between bogus and genuine refugees .
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We must start to define where we expect genuine refugees to come from.
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According to refugee experts, existing procedures failed to identify and protect genuine refugees.
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It will prevent the misuse of asylum procedures while protecting the position of genuine refugees .
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The couple have since been accepted as genuine refugees and granted permission to stay in Britain indefinitely.
kurdish
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The United Kingdom on Dec. 31 announced that it would provide a further £1,000,000 in aid to Kurdish refugees .
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After the Gulf war, thousands of Kurdish refugees fled to the mountains.
political
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The word is still used today, of course, to describe something desirable to which political refugees are entitled.
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Her father is a political refugee .
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In other words, the definition of political refugee and economic mi grant became interchangeable.
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The United States granted her request to become a political refugee .
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Nizan stuck to his principles, but after 1939 he became a political refugee .
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The economic migrant is also the political refugee .
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But a new category of political refugee was emerging in the newly independent states of the ex-colonies.
young
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Though intended primarily for adults, the advice held good for young refugees .
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Jean Hoare virtually handed over her Bloomsbury flat to young refugees .
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Many of the young refugees left their homes and families 4 years ago.
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But there were exceptions. 2 of the youngest were refugees from Bosnia.
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Fortunately for the young refugees , there was much to divert them from the risk they were taking.
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Norbert and Alfred are representative of the thirty-six young refugees held in mental hospitals in 1945.
■ NOUN
camp
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He returned to the refugee camp where his family has lived since 1948.
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Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced, unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings.
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Our neighborhood looked like a refugee camp , bursting its seams.
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We wanted compensation for what a half-century in refugee camps has done to their lives.
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Hundreds of thousands of people living in refugee camps and towns near the fighting were scattered and set adrift.
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In the Gaza refugee camp of Rafah soldiers shot dead 11-year-old Mohammad Jarbou.
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As a way of encouraging them to return, food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer.
child
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Anyone with a foreign accent, including refugee children , were labelled as potential saboteurs.
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The proceeds will go towards her school for refugee children .
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They believe refugee children deserve a season of peace and goodwill.
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By then, the critical decision had been taken to restrict the flow of refugee children into Britain.
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The responsibilities of the regional and area committees increased in line with the numbers of refugee children needing care.
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Refugee children under the age of sixteen were liable to be evacuated; refugee children over sixteen risked being interned.
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Youth Allyah was opposed to the very principle of fostering refugee children .
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Many former refugee children report never having seen a Bloomsbury House representative.
crisis
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Famine and refugee crisis On Jan. 12 Mogadishu's water supply failed after the looting of diesel fuel from the pumping station.
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Pensioners already fighting to keep their heads above water are being asked to pay extra council tax to fund the refugee crisis .
population
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The year also witnessed the suspension of some special programmes, most notably infant and adult education among refugee populations .
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The capacity of the occupied territories to absorb part or all of the refugee population will be considered in chapter 9.
problem
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Forget the junta's involvement in heroin production and trafficking, and the humanitarian and refugee problems resulting from its tyranny.
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There were also fears of a growing refugee problem .
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Solutions seem impossible-but there can be some hope if we start dealing with the refugee problem at the gates.
status
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Najera said Rawa's family has applied for refugee status but no decision has been made.
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Ahmed Katangole was due to be deported, the Home Office had refused him refugee status .
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We will provide a fair and expeditious system for examining claims for refugee status .
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I was fortunate to be granted full refugee status in under a year, this entitled me to bring my family here.
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Apparently white farmers are to be offered immediate refugee status , no questions asked.
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Mr. Young How many of the boat people have been granted refugee status ?
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As numbers rise, a decreasing proportion are found to qualify for refugee status .
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Shortly after my interview, Delhi announced that the Karmapa had been granted refugee status .
■ VERB
accept
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Of the 64,000 people in the Hong Kong camps, only 5,000 had so far been accepted as genuine refugees .
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The Government has said it will accept around 4,000 refugees for six months.
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The couple have since been accepted as genuine refugees and granted permission to stay in Britain indefinitely.
bring
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Mr Smith, a Northampton headmaster, has been involved in bringing hundreds of refugees to Britain from the Yugoslav war zone.
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Now the process was open to any nonprofit agency that wanted to bring refugees into the United States.
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Now the headmaster who brought them here wants to return to the war zone to bring out more refugees .
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Meanwhile, Oxfam has launched a double-edged appeal to bring aid to refugees in countries ripped apart by fighting.
flee
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Many magistrates and law enforcement officials were either killed or fled as refugees .
help
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Many others had reason to be grateful to the Quakers for refusing to give up their mission to help refugees .
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A navy warship was also on its way to the area to help evacuate refugees .
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On a far more extensive scale than we have done hitherto, we must help refugees in their own and neighbouring countries.
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Such publicity does not necessarily help refugees .
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The borough willingly assumes its responsibilities to help and cope with refugees .
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We hope to help refugees from any war, any country.
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Much more could be done to help assimilate our refugees - for example, help with schooling and specialist support.
live
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Hundreds of thousands of people living in refugee camps and towns near the fighting were scattered and set adrift.
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Do your readers know what it is like to live in a refugee camp?
return
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Many returning refugees have found themselves dispossessed once more, made refugees in their own land.
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He returned to the refugee camp where his family has lived since 1948.
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They are making their pitch on radio stations, and are videotaping interviews with returning refugees and playing them in the camps.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a refugee camp
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Britain has traditionally been a safe haven for political refugees.
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Most of the refugees from the former war zone have now been sent back.
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The government has been unable to provide enough tents for all the refugees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And is it reasonable to expect the refugees to go back?
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But for its refugees, Lothian and its southlands are dead.
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But it is hard to remain morally comfortable when turning back refugees.
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It all left yesterday's would-be refugees furious at the latest delay in an evacuation that has taken two months to negotiate.
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Mandela mustered encouragement for the refugees, who are mostly Hutu.
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So far, the most desperate of measures has not been taken, perhaps because would-be refugees have nowhere to run.
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Villagers from El Barillo ended up in a church-run refugee camp in Calle Real.