refugee, IDP, evacuee

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:58 AM -0700 9/6/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Margaret, I didn't write that.
>
>Anyway, except for fugitive slaves and the like, black people
>haven't been "refugees" in America since 1619. People brought and
>held forcibly against their will may be slaves, or captives, or
>prisoners, or other things, but hardly "refugees."  Refugees leave,
>or are tossed out of, an intolerable place to seek refuge elsewhere.
>
>At least that's my understanding of the word "refugee."
>
>JL
>
... and then there's "exile", for those tossed out of (relatively)
tolerable places.  But of course exiles can also be, or become,
refugees.

Larry