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Immigrants
Information on Refugees and Immigrants
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| economic migrant | Someone who has left his or her home to look for better work and a higher standard of living in another place. |
| Immigrant | Someone who has entered a new country to settle. |
| Asylum seeker | Someone who has fled from her or his country and is seeking refugee status in another country. |
| Refugee | Someone who has left her or his country or is unable to return to her or his country because of a well founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. |
| Asylee | A person who has been granted political asylum. |
| Expedited Removal | In the United States, the Immigration Act in 1996 created this process by which asylum seekers defend themselves from being returned to their countries. |
| Political asylum | Legal status given to a refugee or asylee as determined by a judge. |