All 14 Uses
refugee
in
I Am Malala
(Edited)
- Through the Malala Fund, I decided to advocate for the education of Syrian refugees in Jordan.
p. xix.5refugees = people who left their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence
- I went to the Syrian border and witnessed scores of refugees fleeing into Jordan.
p. xix.6
- In the refugee settlements most of the children were not going to school.
p. xix.7refugee = related to people who left their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence
- We spoke to many agencies and raised awareness about the plight of refugees to help increase support for them.
p. xx.3refugees = people who left their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence
- We also started projects on the ground with the Malala Fund to help integrate Syrian refugees into schools in Jordan.
p. xx.4
- I am a refugee, too, forced to live far away from my own country.
p. xx.5refugee = someone who left their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence
- As my father says, we might be the world's best-treated refugees, in a nice house with everything we need, but we still yearn for our homeland.
p. xx.6refugees = people who left their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence
- It started a massive program to train Afghan refugees recruited from the camps as resistance fighters, or mujahideen.
p. 31.9
- Children in the refugee camps were even given school textbooks produced by an American university which taught basic arithmetic through fighting.
p. 33.3refugee = related to people who left their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence
- They are now refugees and they're living with us.
p. 101.5refugees = people who left their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence
- In Mardan there were already big camps of white UNHCR tents like those for Afghan refugees in Peshawar.
p. 180.2
- They opened the doors of their homes, schools and mosques to the refugees.
p. 180.6 *
- In order to protect women's purdah, men in families hosting the refugees even slept away from their own homes.
p. 180.7
- Mohammad Ali Jinnah lived there and made it our first capital, and it was soon flooded by millions of Muslim refugees from India known as mohajirs which means "immigrants" and speak Urdu.
p. 220.2
Definitions:
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(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)