refugee
noun
a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
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True, I have met some pitiful cases of refugeeism, but to a very large number of people in Northern France the war is nothing but somewhat of a nuisance.
From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones