A report of interest: Forced Displacement: The Development Challenge. (World Bank)

According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, as modified by the 1967 Protocol, a refugee is a person who “owing to well‐founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of  race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside his country of nationality and  is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.”

Thus, refugees are outside their country of nationality or in the case of stateless persons, their country of habitual residence, in  places of  exile  where they are not necessarily welcome and, at the same time, have lost the protection of the country they were forced to flee. They are therefore in need of being protected and assisted by countries of asylum as well as by UNHCR.

Why blogging this? part of the taxonomy of nomads.