Emigrate vs Refugee - What's the difference?
emigrate | refugee |
To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
* Macaulay
* J. H. Newman
A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, i.e., a person seeking a political asylum.
A person seeking refuge in a foreign country due to poverty and no prospect of overcoming said poverty in his home country, i.e., a person seeking an economic asylum.
A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster.
A person formally granted a political or economic asylum by a country other than his home country.
(transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.
As verbs the difference between emigrate and refugee
is that emigrate is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere while refugee is (transitive|us|historical) to convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.As a noun refugee is
a person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, ie, a person seeking a political asylum.emigrate
English
Verb
(emigrat)- Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
- They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.
