Also called internee. A person who has been forced by dangerous circumstances to leave home for a place of safety within the home country. The dangerous circumstances could be natural disasters such as droughts or storms or they could be persecution or social unrest such as wars or revolutions. If a person flees to a place within the home country, he or she is called displaced . If that person flees to another country, he or she is called a refugee .
Emigrants are people who leave their home countries to settle elsewhere.
Unlike a deportee, who is forced to leave a country where he or she is not a citizen, an exile is a person who is forced to leave his or her home country. When a legal decree or banishment forces a person to leave, he or she is in involuntary exile . When circumstances cause a person to leave, he or she is in voluntary exile . A slang term describing the permit that indicates that a person who is not a citizen has been granted legal permanent resident status in the United States. Found in many treaties and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed by the United Nations General Assembly in1948.