refugee camp

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noun

A temporary settlement established to provide shelter and basic services for people displaced from their homes by conflict, persecution, or disaster.

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At only eight, she fled war-torn Somalia with her family after gunmen attacked their home and lived in a refugee camp in Kenya for four years.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

She lived with partisans in the nearby forest for months, spent years with her husband in an Italian refugee camp and arrived in the United States in 1949 to start life over again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

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Possible Synonyms

asylum center
humanitarian reception center
displacement camp
displaced persons camp
resettlement center

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ancestral home
permanent residence
settled community