Islamic Relief [to 19 December 2015]
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Migrant: what’s in a name
December 18, 2015
There are many reasons for someone to leave their home.
It could be because of conflict, crippling economic poverty, wellbeing; perhaps the ground has become too dry to farm and they have nothing to eat, maybe a natural disaster has destroyed their home, possibly they are want a better life for their children.

A migrant is simply a person who moves from one place to another in order. Within the term ‘migrant’, are asylum seekers, refugees or internally-displaced people, as well as migrant workers. While Islam has no linguistic differentiation between these terms, international law makes the distinction. Those who flee their home country become refugees or asylum seekers, while those who stay in their country are referred to as internally-displaced people, or IDPs.

For International Migrants Day, Islamic Relief is examining the situation of people who remain within their country’s borders.
Currently, there are around 38 million IDPs in the world, compared to 19.8 million refugees…