(ii) Review the tweet below and answer the question.
Salama Ali is an internally displaced person in Yemen. Explain what is meant by this term.
Exam Hint
If you are presented with a term in the exam that is unfamiliar to you, break it down into parts. For example, here we can break down the term ‘internally displaced person’ into a person who has been ‘displaced’ (forced to move from their original place/home), and this has happened ‘internally’ (inside their own country).
(iii) The people in the images below have all left their home country to move elsewhere. Select the appropriate terms from the list below to describe each situation and place them underneath the correct image.
Organised migration Emigrant
Refugee Forced migration Individual migration Internally displaced person
Sarah O’Connor is an Irish person who decided to move to Sydney, Australia, in search of greater job opportunities.
Abbas Khaled fled to Germany from Syria when civil war broke out in his home country. He was given permission to stay.
Piotr and Anna Nowak came to live in Ireland from Poland. They came to find employment and to save up to refurbish a family business back home.