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displaced populations  

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  • Displaced people are persons driven away or expelled from their houses and homelands. The term displaced person (DP) was first used at the end of World War II to refer to a person who had been liberated from an extermination camp or labor camp of Nazi Germany or other Axis powers but who had not yet been relocated to a permanent settlement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Displaced Populations]

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