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People who packed their whole lives into a backpack because staying meant dying.
means People forced to flee their home country to escape war, persecution, or disaster, and unable to safely return.
from From French refugie, those who fled — first applied to Huguenots escaping France after 1685, when Protestant worship became a crime overnight.
Legal weightProtected since the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.
ScaleOver 35 million worldwide, most hosted by neighbors.
Not migrantsMigrants choose to leave; refugees are pushed.
Long staysAverage displacement now lasts over a decade.