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refugee
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A Long Walk to Water
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- By sunset, they would be out of the desert, and after that, it would not be far to the Itang refugee camp in Ethiopia.†
p. 59.5refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
- I am going to take you to the refugee camp, but then I will return to Sudan, to fight in the war" Salva stopped walking and clutched at Uncle's arm.†
p. 60.3
- We are going to Itang, to the refugee camp.†
p. 62.7
- Marial and Uncle were no longer by his side, and they never would be again, but Salva knew that both of them would have wanted him to survive, to finish the trip and reach the hang refugee camp safely.†
p. 65.7
- The refugee camp at hang was filled with people of all ages—men, women, girls, small children....But most of the refugees were boys and young men who had run away from their villages when the war came.†
p. 66.9
- The refugee camp at hang was filled with people of all ages—men, women, girls, small children....But most of the refugees were boys and young men who had run away from their villages when the war came.†
p. 67.1 *refugees = people who fled their homeland
- Children who arrived at the refugee camp without their families were grouped together, so Salva was separated at once from the people he had traveled with.†
p. 67.4refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
- Itang refugee camp, Ethiopia, 1985†
p. 71.3
- The refugee camps were run by foreign aid groups, but it was the government that permitted them to operate.†
p. 73.8
- There are supposed to be refugee camps in Kenya.†
p. 79.9
- Ifo refugee camp, Kenya, 1992-96†
p. 84.1
- For the past five years he had been living in refugee camps in northern Kenya: first at the Kakuma camp, then at Ifo.†
p. 84.2
- There were families who had managed to escape together, but again, as in Ethiopia, most of the refugees were orphaned boys and young men.†
p. 84.7refugees = people who fled their homeland
- The local people who lived in the area did not like having the refugee camp nearby.†
p. 84.8refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
- They would often sneak in and steal from the refugees.†
p. 84.9refugees = people who fled their homeland
- He had heard of another refugee camp, far to the south and west, where he hoped things would be better.†
p. 85.1refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
- Few of the refugees spoke English, so communication with the aid workers was often difficult.†
p. 86.1refugees = people who fled their homeland
- The rumor was that about three thousand boys and young men from the refugee camps would be chosen to go live in America!†
p. 88.1refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
- That was what they were being called in America—the boys who had lost their homes and families because of the war and had wandered, lost, for weeks or months at a time before reaching the refugee camps.†
p. 91.2
- They rode in a truck from the Ifo refugee camp to a processing center in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.†
p. 91.6
- It had taken four days for Salva to travel from the Ifo refugee camp to his new home in New York.†
p. 98.9
- Years before, when he was leading those boys on their walk from the Ethiopian refugee camp to the one in Kenya, he had called a meeting every morning and evening.†
p. 109.3
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)