Glossary
The EMN Glossary – as one of the key products of the EMN - improves comparability by enabling a common understanding and use of terms and definitions relating to asylum and migration. The Glossary draws on a variety of sources, but primarily on the legislation of the EU asylum and immigration acquis, and makes terms available in the majority of EU Member State languages.
The online version is regularly updated and available in various languages.
- BG: разселено лице по екологични причини
- CZ: enviromentální uprchlík
- DE: Umweltvertriebener
- EE: keskkonnapõhjustel ümberasustatud isik
- EN: environmentally displaced person
- ES: población desplazada por motivos medioambientales
- FI: ympäristötekijöiden vuoksi siirtymään joutunut
- FR: personne déplacée pour des raisons environnementales
- GA: duine easáitithe de dheasca dálaí comhshaoil
- GR: εσωτερικώς εκτοπισμένο άτομο (για περιβαλλοντικούς λόγους)
- HU: lakóhelyét környezeti okból elhagyni kényszerült személy
- IT: sfollato per motivi ambientali
- LT: dėl ekologinių priežasčių perkeltas asmuo
- LV: vides faktoru ietekmē pārvietota persona
- MT: Persuna sfollata għal raġunijiet ambjentali
- NL: door milieufactoren verdreven ontheemde (not commonly used in NL)
- NO: person fordrevet på grunn av miljøskader (b) / person fordriven på grunn av miljøskadar (n)
- PL: osoba przesiedlona z powodu środowiska naturalnego
- PT: deslocado ambiental
- RO: persoană strămutată din cauze legate de mediul înconjurător
- SE: fördriven person (på grund av miljökatastrof)
- SK: osoba vysídlená z environmentálnych dôvodov
- SL: okoljsko razseljena oseba
A person subject to forced migration as a result of sudden, drastic environmental changes.
Environmentally displaced persons are sometimes referred to as environmental refugees, but this is a misuse of the term 'refugee' as they are not refugees in the strict sense of Art. 1A of the Geneva Refugee Convention and Protocol, although their migration is forced.