Forced displacement
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A displaced person (sometimes abbreviated DP) is a person who has been forced to leave his or her home or place of habitual residence, a phenomenon known as forced migration.
According to the UNHCR, there were 59.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide at the end of 2014, the highest level since World War II: 19.5 million were refugees, 1.8 million asylum seekers and 38.2 million internally displaced persons.
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See also
- Displaced Persons camp: DP camps following World War II
- Earl G. Harrison's "Report on DPs in Western Europe in 1945" to U.S. President Harry S. Truman
- April 1986 Chernobyl disaster created over 336,000 internally displaced persons
- Kampala Convention
- Divided family
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