Asylum Seeker - A person who has fled persecution in their homeland, has arrived in another country, made themselves known to the authorities and exercised the legal right to apply for asylum, Immigrant - A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. Immigration is about coming into a new country. This is often confused with emigration, which is about leaving your country of origin, Migrant - A person who makes a free and conscious choice to leave their country to seek a better life elsewhere; often wrongly used to describe refugees or asylum seekers., Refugee - A person whose asylum application has been successful and who is allowed to stay in another country, having proved that they would face persecution or threat to their life in their home country; they have been given the legal “right to remain, Illegal Immigrant - A term commonly used to refer to someone who has entered the country through deception, perhaps not applying for a visa or for asylum. Some people do try to avoid detection when they get to another country but that may be because of a fear of authority, a fear of persecution, illiteracy, trauma or other good reasons. This is the least common type of immigrant to the UK, Economic Migrant - omeone who has moved to another country to work. For example, members of the European Union are currently free to move between EU member states and to seek work in any of them, Displaced Person - A person who has been driven from their home or place of residence and forced to move elsewhere in their home country due to war, internal upheaval, or natural disaster., Expat - Short for expatriate, a person who lives outside their native country, often used in the UK to refer to a UK citizen living abroad; has the same meaning as immigrant but usually used to refer to White Europeans and seen as less pejorative in tone than immigrant, Emigrant - A person who leaves their own country to settle permanently in another.,

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