An internally displaced person is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders. They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the
Villagers fleeing gunfire in a camp for internally displaced persons during the 2008 Nord-Kivu campaign
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with internally displaced people during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Migrant Mother, famous photo by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson with her children during the Great Depression in 1936
UNRWA camp of Al-Mawasi, where displaced Palestinians live in tents to flee the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, January 22, 2025
Forced displacement is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. The UNHCR defines "forced displacement" as follows: displaced "as a result of perse
Internally displaced person
…An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders. They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions…
Syrian and Iraqi migrants arriving in Lesbos, Greece, in 2015 seeking refuge.
Damage to residence in Nias, Indonesia from the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
Jews forcibly displaced by the Nazi regime during Germany's WWII occupation of Poland, loaded onto trains for transport to concentration camps.
Children of undocumented immigrants from Latin America to the United States detained in the Ursula Detention Center, McAllen, Texas, June 2017