Person driven from their home by natural disasters, such as rising sea level, floods, drought, tsunamis, hurricanes, desertification, over-population and depleted aquifers.
Thousands of environmental refugees fled New Orleans, Louisiana when the city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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Noun. The well worn international routes taken by forcibly displaced people in search of safety and a better life.
Like many people before him, he fled from his country of origin and traveled the refugee highway from Somalia to Sudan, across the Sahara Desert to Libya, and then across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy where he hoped to receive political asylum.
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Get the bosnian refugee mug.Radioactive Refugee are the people that are forced to leave their homes and or Countries (usually forever) because of the spread of Radioactive pollution.
Tens of thousands of Japanese are now Radioactive Refugees living in camps because of the wide spread pollution caused by their nuclear reactor disaster on 03/11/11.
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Get the Radioactive Refugee mug.noun: the act of squatting down low to the ground, tail bone almost touching, knees to chest, to stay cool while waisting time at a refugee camp. spreading legs wide creates room for food preparation or laundry pounding.
I am going to refugee squat while waiting for this bus.
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Revel in your abandon
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Everybody's had to fight to be free
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Now baby, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee) No
Baby we ain't the first
I'm sure a lot of other lovers been burned
Right now this seems real to you
But it's one of those things
You gotta feel to be true
Somewhere, somehow, somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped
Tied up, taken away and held for ransom, honey
It don't really matter to me, baby
Everybody's had to fight to be free
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)
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