Definitions for refugee camp
refugee camp

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1. camp, refugee campnoun

   shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

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1. refugee campnoun

   A camp where refugees seek shelter.

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1. Refugee camp

   A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for internally displaced people. Usually, refugees seek asylum after they have escaped war in their home countries, but some camps also house environmental and economic migrants. Camps with over a hundred thousand people are common, but as of 2012, the average-sized camp housed around 11,400. They are usually built and run by a government, the United Nations, international organizations (such as the International Committee of the Red Cross), or non-governmental organization. Unofficial refugee camps, such as Idomeni in Greece or the Calais jungle in France, are where refugees are largely left without support of governments or international organizations.Refugee camps generally develop in an impromptu fashion with the aim of meeting basic human needs for only a short time. Facilities that make a camp look or feel more permanent are often prohibited by host country governments. If the return of refugees is prevented (often by civil war), a humanitarian crisis can result or continue. According to UNHCR, most refugees worldwide do not live in refugee camps. At the end of 2015, some 67% of refugees around the world lived in individual, private accommodations. This can be partly explained by the high number of Syrian refugees renting apartments in urban agglomerations across the Middle East. Worldwide, slightly over a quarter (25.4%) of refugees were reported to be living in managed camps. At the end of 2015, about 56% of the total refugee population in rural locations resided in a managed camp, compared to the 2% who resided in individual accommodation. In urban locations, the overwhelming majority (99%) of refugees lived in individual accommodations, compared with less than 1% who lived in a managed camp. A small percentage of refugees also live in collective centers, transit camps, and self-settled camps.Despite 74% of refugees being in urban areas, the service delivery model of international humanitarian aid agencies remains focused on the establishment and operation of refugee camps.

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1. refugee camp

   A refugee camp is a temporary settlement or facility built to provide immediate shelter, safety, and humanitarian aid for individuals or groups who have been forced to flee their home regions due to factors such as war, persecution, natural disasters or any circumstance that threatens their safety or freedom. These camps are typically managed and overseen by entities such as the United Nations, Red Cross, or government bodies. They often include infrastructure for basic human necessities such as food, water, healthcare, and education.

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1. Refugee camp

   A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees. Hundreds of thousands of people may live in any one single camp. Usually they are built and run by a government, the United Nations, or international organizations, or NGOs. Refugee camps are generally set up in an impromptu fashion and designed to meet basic human needs for only a short time. Some refugee camps are dirty and unhygienic. If the return of refugees is prevented, a humanitarian crisis can result. Some refugee camps have existed for decades and some people can stay in refugee camps for decades, both of which have major implications for human rights. Some grow into permanent settlements and even merge with nearby older communities, such as Ein el-Helweh and Deir al-Balah.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of refugee camp in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of refugee camp in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of refugee camp in a Sentence

1. Rod Blagojevich:

   [Radislav Blagojevich] spent four years in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during the war for fighting on the side of the Allies, and then was in a refugee camp for three years, waiting for the chance to hopefully have the United States Congress-- that one day, his youngest son would become a member of-- pass a law called the Displaced Persons Act, that permitted my father and millions of others like him, with these long and hard-to-pronounce last names a chance to come to America, to pursue freedom and opportunity.

2. Lual Mayen:

   One of the things that a lot of people think about a refugee camp is that refugees go there and live there for a few years, but it became a really permanent home for us.

3. Matteo Salvini:

   Spanish NGO, Spanish ship, Spanish port: The coherence and strength of Italy has paid off. We are no longer the refugee camp of Europe.

4. Matteo Salvini:

   Saving lives at sea is a duty, but transforming Italy into an enormous refugee camp is not, italy is done bowing its head and obeying. This time there's someone saying no.

5. Deputy President William Ruto:

   The refugee camp poses an existential security threat to Kenya.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=refugee camp
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Refugee_Camp
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee_Camp
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=refugee camp