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: вторично движение на мигранти
- CZ: druhotný pohyb migrantů
- DE: Sekundärmigration
- EE: sisserändajate teisene (riikidevaheline) liikumine
- EN: secondary movement of migrants
- ES: movimientos migratoris secundarios
- FI: maahanmuuttajien toissijainen siirtyminen
- FR: mouvement secondaire de migrants
- GA: athghluaiseacht imirceach
- HU: másodlagos migrációs mozgás
- IT: movimento secondario di migranti
- LT: vėlesnis migrantų judėjimas
- LV: migrantu tālāka pārvietošanās
- MT: Moviment sekondarju ta’ migranti
- NL: secundaire migratiestroom
- NO: sekundærflytting
- PL: wtórny przepływ migrantów
- RO: mişcare secundară a migranţilor
- SE: sekundär migration
- SK: sekundárny pohyb migrantov
- SL: sekundarno gibanje migrantov
The movement of migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, who for different reasons move from the country in which they first arrived to seek protection or permanent resettlement elsewhere.
This movement is without the prior consent of the national authorities, without an entry visa, or with no or insufficient documentation normally required for travel purposes, or with false or fraudulent documentation.
- BG: презаселен бежанец
- CZ: přesídlený uprchlík
- DE: neuangesiedelter Flüchtling
- EE: ümberasustatud pagulane
- EN: resettled refugee
- ES: refugiado reasentado
- FI: uudelleensijoitettu pakolainen
- FR: réfugié réinstallé
- GA: dídeanaí athlonnaithe
- HU: áttelepített menekült
- IT: rifugiato reinsediato
- LT: perkeltas pabėgėlis
- LV: pārvietots bēglis
- MT: rifuġjat(a) risistemat(a)
- NL: programma voor uitgenodigde vluchtelingen (BE: programma voor hervestigde vluchteling)
- NO: overføringsflyktning
- PL: przesiedlony uchodźca
- RO: refugiat relocat
- SE: kvotflykting
- SK: presídlená osoba / presídlený utečenec / presídlenec
- SL: ponovno naseljeni begunec
In the EU context, a third-country national or stateless person who, on a resettlement request from UNHCR based on their need for international protection, are transferred from a third country to a Member State where they are permitted to reside with one of the following statuses:
(i) refugee status within the meaning of Art. 2(d) of Directive 2011/95/EU (Recast Qualification Directive) or
(ii) a status which offers the same rights and benefits under national and Union law as refugee status
2. In some cases, national authorities assess in addition as to whether the person concerned is a refugee.
3. There are different terms used in EU Member States depending on different legal concepts. In some Member States such refugees are accepted as part of a yearly resettlement programme.
4. IE uses the term ‘programme refugee’ in a wider context than ‘resettlement’ and defines in Section 24 of the Irish Refugee Act, 1996 as follows: ‘a person to whom leave to enter and remain in the State for temporary protection or resettlement as part of a group of persons has been given by the Government’.
- BG: програма за презаселване
- CZ: přesídlovací program
- DE: Neuansiedlungsprogramm
- EE: ümberasustamisprogramm
- EN: resettlement programme
- ES: programa de reasentamiento
- FI: uudelleensijoittamisohjelma
- FR: programme de réinstallation
- GA: clár athlonnaithe
- GR: πρόγραμμα μετεγκατάστασης
- HU: áttelepítési (letelepítési) program
- IT: programma di reinsediamento
- LT: perkėlimo programa
- LV: pārvietošanas programma
- MT: Programm ta’ risistemazzjoni
- NL: hervestigingsprogramma
- NO: gjenbosettingsprogram (b) / gjenbusetjingsprogram (n)
- PL: Program Przesiedleń
- PT: programa de reinstalação
- RO: program de relocare
- SE: program för vidarebosättning
- SK: presídľovací program / program presídľovania
- SL: program ponovne naselitve
In the EU context, voluntary programmes by which EU Member States aim to provide international protection and durable solutions in their territories to refugees and displaced persons identified as eligible for resettlement by UNHCR, and which include actions that the Member States implement to assess the resettlement needs and transfer the persons concerned to their territories, with a view to granting them a secure legal status and to promoting their effective integration.
EU context: Derived by EMN from Recital 18 of Decision 573/2007/EC establishing the European Refugee Fund
- BG: презаселване
- CZ: přesídlení
- DE: Neuansiedlung
- EE: ümberasustamine
- EN: resettlement
- ES: reasentamiento
- FI: uudelleensijoittaminen
- FR: réinstallation
- GA: athlonnú
- GR: επανεγκατάστασης
- HU: áttelepítés (letelepítés)
- IT: reinsediamento
- LT: perkėlimas
- LV: pārvietošana
- MT: Risistemazzjoni
- NL: hervestiging
- NO: gjenbosetting (b) / gjenbusetjing (n)
- PL: przesiedlenie
- PT: reinstalação
- RO: relocare
- SE: vidarebosättning
- SK: presídlenie / presídľovanie
- SL: ponovna naselitev
In the EU context, the transfer, on a request from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and based on their need for international protection, of a third-country national or stateless person, from a third country to an EU Member State, where they are permitted to reside with one of the following statuses:
(i) refugee status within the meaning of Art. 2(d) of Directive 2011/95/EU (Recast Qualification Directive)(ii) a status which offers the same rights and benefits under national and EU law as refugee status.
2. This term should not be confused with ‘relocation’.
- BG: трайни решения
- CZ: trvalé řešení
- DE: dauerhafte Lösung
- EE: püsivad lahendused
- EN: durable solutions
- ES: soluciones duraderas
- FI: kestävät ratkaisut
- FR: solutions durables
- GA: buanréitigh; réitigh mharthanacha (uatha: buanréiteach; réiteach marthanach)
- GR: ανθεκτική λύση
- HU: a fenntarthatóságot szolgáló intézkedések
- IT: soluzione durevole
- LT: ilgalaikiai sprendimai
- LV: ilgtspējīgi risinājumi
- MT: Soluzzjonijiet dewwiema / li jibqgħu fis-seħħ
- NL: duurzame oplossing
- NO: varige løsninger (b) / varige løysingar (n)
- PL: trwałe rozwiązania
- RO: solutii durabile
- SE: hållbara lösningar
- SK: trvalé riešenia / trvácne riešenia (depending on the context)
- SL: trajne rešitve
Any means by which the situation of refugees can be satisfactorily and permanently resolved to enable them to live normal lives.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) traditionally pursues the durable solutions of voluntary repatriation, local integration and resettlement.
- BG: репатриране
- CZ: repatriace
- DE: Repatriierung
- EE: tagasipöördumine (repatrieerumine)
- EN: repatriation
- ES: repatriación
- FI: paluu, palauttaminen
- FR: rapatriement
- GA: aisdúichiú
- GR: επαναπατρισμός
- HU: hazatelepítés
- IT: rimpatrio
- LT: repatriacija
- LV: repatriācija
- MT: Ripatrijazzjoni
- NL: repatriëring (NL syn.: naar het vaderland terugkeren / naar het vaderland terugbrengen)
- NO: repatriering
- PL: repatriacja
- PT: repatriamento
- RO: repatriere
- SE: återvandring
- SK: repatriácia
- SL: repatriacija
The personal right of a refugee or a prisoner of war to return to their country of nationality under specific conditions laid down in various international instruments and human rights instruments as well as in customary international law.
2. The option of repatriation is bestowed upon the individual personally and not upon the detaining power. In the law of international armed conflict, repatriation also entails the obligation of the detaining power to release eligible persons (soldiers and civilians) and the duty of the country of origin to receive its own nationals at the end of hostilities. Even if treaty law does not contain a general rule on this point, it is today readily accepted that the repatriation of prisoners of war and civil detainees has been consented to implicitly by the interested parties. Repatriation as a term also applies to diplomatic envoys and international officials in times of international crisis as well as expatriates and migrants.
3. Depending on the EU Member State, this term has different meanings / connotations: in PL, RO, NL, NO this refers specifically to repatriating their nationals back to PL, RO, NL, NO respectively. In ES, IE, IT, UK, it is often used in the context of returning third-country nationals to their country of origin. In EE, the term refers specifically to persons of Estonia or ethnic Estonians’ resettlement to Estonia. In LV, the term refers specifically to the persons of Latvian or Liiv origin to resettle with permanent residence in Latvia. In PT, the term has no legal concept, being used more as a sociological term. It is commonly used to refer to Portuguese citizens that return to Portugal, including being forced to return.
4. The term should not be confused with ‘voluntary repatriation’ which is according to the UNHCR International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology defined as follows: ‘Return to the country of origin on the basis of the freely expressed willingness of the refugees’. The returns have to take place in conditions of safety, dignity and security. The principle of ‘voluntariness’ must be viewed in relation to both: conditions in the country of origin (calling for an informed decision) and the situation in the country of asylum (permitting a free choice). For more information, see UNHCR: Voluntary Repatriation: International Protection – handbook, 1996.
- BG: регионална програма за закрила
- CZ: program regionální ochrany
- DE: Regionales Schutzprogramm
- EE: piirkondlik kaitsekava
- EN: regional protection programme
- ES: programa regional de protección
- FI: alueellinen suojeluohjelma
- FR: programme régional de protection
- GA: Clár Cosanta Réigiúnaí
- HU: Regionális Védelmi Program
- IT: programma di protezione regionale
- LT: regioninė apsaugos programa
- LV: reģionālās aizsardzības programma
- MT: Programm ta’ protezzjoni reġjonali
- NL: regionaal beschermingsprogramma
- NO: regionalt program om beskyttelse (b) regionalt program om vern (n)
- PL: program ochrony regionalnej
- PT: Programa regional de protecção
- RO: program de protecţie regională
- SE: regionalt skyddsprogram
- SK: regionálny program ochrany
- SL: regionalni program zaščite
A programme designed to enhance the capacity of non-EU countries in the regions from which many refugees originate, or through which they pass in transit, with the aim to improve refugee protection through durable solutions (return, local integration and resettlement in a third country).
2. For further information, see the website of DG Migration and Home Affairs.