All 5 Uses

refugee
in
Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee
(Auto-generated)

He'd had two lives, one in Saigon and another in the refugee camp.†
p. 18.1

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
He doesn't talk much about the refugee camp, other than that his mother cut hair, his older brother raised fighting fish, his married sister brought back live crabs and worms for him to eat whenever she could sneak a visit from her own camp.†
p. 18.2 *
Du made it out of the refugee camp, and his brother didn't.†
p. 28.2
But we are refugees and mercenaries and guest workers; you see us sleeping in airport lounges; you watch us unwrapping the last of our native foods, unrolling our prayer rugs, reading our holy books, taking out for the hundredth time an aerogram promising a job or space to sleep, a newspaper in our language, a photo of happier times, a passport, a visa, a laissez-passer.†
p. 100.6

refugees = people who fled their homeland
I did not want to live legally if it also meant living like a refugee.†
p. 171.7

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people

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)