5G Montale 2017 CLIL PROJECT
A DIFFERENT JOURNEY
Migrants or refugees: a matter of life and death
Economic Migrants
An economic migrant is someone who emigrates from one region to another to seek an improvement in living standards because the living conditions or job opportunities in the migrant's own region are not good.
Migrants for protection
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Asylum-seekers
Internally displaced person
Refugees
Stateless person
refugees
A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.
Asylum seeker
An asylum-seeker is someone whose request for sanctuary has yet to be processed. Every year, around one million people seek asylum.
Internally displaced persons
are "persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized border."
Stateless person
Article 1 (1) of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons defines a stateless person as ‘a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law'.
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