Preferred label
Refugees
Alternative labels
Boat people
Displaced persons
Political refugees
Broader term
People
Narrower term
Fugitive slaves
Related terms
Aliens
Emigration & immigration
Evacuations
Exiles
Internal migration
Refugee camps
Repatriation
Right to asylum
Victims
Scope note
Persons fleeing to a foreign country or power, or to another part of their country, to escape danger or persecution. Search under DISASTER VICTIMS for refugees from disasters. Search also under the subdivision --REFUGEES used with names of wars (Appendix C).
Change note
Formerly TGMI term.