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Preferred term

Refugee camps  

Definition

  • Use for temporary, often spontaneously established, settlements of displaced peoples along borders of neighboring or nearby countries, generally having minimal shelter, supplies, and sanitary facilities and created without the granting of technical asylum. [AAT]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Camps, detention, Refugees
  • Camps, displaced persons
  • Camps, first asylum
  • Camps, internment, Refugees
  • Camps, refugee
  • Detention camps, Refugees
  • Displaced persons camps
  • First asylum camps
  • Havens, temporary
  • Internment camps, Refugees
  • Temporary havens

Notation

  • 113096

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-Z1824MV3-F

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