Wiktionary
n. A camp where refugees seek shelter.
WordNet
n. shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs [syn: camp]
Wikipedia
A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate people who have fled from neighbouring countries, but there are also camps for internally displaced persons. Camps with over a hundred thousand people are common, but as of 2012 the average-sized camp housed around 11,400. Usually they are built and run by a government, the United Nations, or international organizations (such as the Red Cross), or NGOs. But there are also unofficial refugee camps, like Idomeni in Greece or the Calais jungle in France, where refugees are largely left without support of governments or international organizations.
Refugee camps generally develop in an impromptu fashion with the aim of meeting basic human needs for only a short time. Facilities that make a camp look or feel more permanent are often prohibited by host country governments. Refugee camps are typically settlements of people who have escaped war in their home country and have fled to a country of first asylum, but some camps also house environmental migrants and economic refugees. If the return of refugees is prevented (often by civil war), a humanitarian crisis can result or continue.
Usage examples of "refugee camp".
In a situation as fouled up as this one, my package might get through, especially since they will not suspect a document written in English of originating in a Hispanic refugee camp.
French harbor of Toulon, which stood forty miles from Marseilles and only twenty miles from the big refugee camp of La Ciotat.
Gerd had happily accepted, anxious to leave the growing refugee camp.
The big pieces of construction equipment were working away, engines roaring, clearing the area for the planned refugee camp.
He'd walked the refugee camp at night, wandering between the ragged rows of tents, lean-tos and canopied wagons, his eyes taking in all that he saw with perverse detachment.
They were rapidly heading toward the Strip's most dangerous stronghold, the Khan Yunis refugee camp where radical Is lamic forces were especially strong.
It wasn't a computer, but it was still a sure-fire sign of superiority in the middle of a refugee camp.
And Jag was on his way to the refugee camp, which made less sense to him than anything Jaina had done.
It was this that made us decide to return home, arguing that if our house was still in danger we would return to the refugee camp that night.
Yalena could see camp fires, now, at the refugee camp, where weary people with bruised souls were gathering around the cookfires to share what little was available to eat, sharing it with loved ones and new-found friends.