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Booklet 4 Flashcards

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Refugee

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A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster

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Asylum seeker

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A person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another

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UNHCR

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The UNHCR is a United Nations programme made to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself made on December 14, 1950

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Internally displaced person

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Is someone who is forced to leave their home but remains within their country’s borders

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Push factors

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A factor that motivates someone to leave their home country

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Pull factor

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A factor that motivates someone to move to a particular place

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Offshore processing

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The term used to describe Australia sending asylum seekers who arrive by boat to either Nauru or Manus island

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