internally displaced person

English

Noun

internally displaced person (plural internally displaced persons or internally displaced people)

  1. Someone who is forced to flee their home but who remains within their country's borders.
    Synonyms: (initialism) IDP, internal refugee
    • 2023 May 11, Lizzy Davies, “Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people”, in The Guardian:
      By the end of 2022 the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) – those forced from their homes but remaining within their country of residence – reached 71 million, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), up from 59.1 million in 2021.
  • internal displacement
  • internally displaced

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