All 6 Uses

refugee
in
The Bean Trees
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One time I had admired a little gold medallion she always wore around her neck and she said, with an accent, but plainly enough: "That is St. Christopher, guardian saint of refugees."†
Chpt 14.

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Then she unclasped the gold medallion of St. Christopher, guardian saint of refugees, and put it around Turtle's neck.†
Chpt 16.
When they came out that morning dressed as refugees I had wanted to cry out, No!†
Chpt 16.
The congregation had since moved its home of worship plus its pastor and presumably its refugees into a new set of buildings several miles down the road.†
Chpt 17.
Mattie used to talk about the Underground Railroad, by which she meant these churches and the people who carried refugees between them,
Chpt 17. *

refugees = people fleeing their homeland (in this case, fleeing slavery in the South)
That's St. Christopher, the guardian saint of refugees.†
Chpt 17.

refugees = people who fled their homeland

Definitions:

(1) (refugee)
someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)