OK, so for me someone who leaves a place because they aren’t safe there is a refugee rather than a migrant (or: as well as a migrant, but I would generally prefer to use the more informative term) even if the danger isn’t imminent.
If I live in a community where people of my ethnicity or religion or eye colour or whatever are being murdered at a rate that means I’ll probably last five years, that’s a serious threat and I need to get the hell out of there even though a couple of months’ extra time there doesn’t make a huge difference to the likelihood of death.
This depends on what “huge” means. If you’re not likely to live five years, your chance of death in a few months isn’t huge in comparison to 100% or 50%, but it’s still huge in comparison to the average person’s chance of death.
Sure. I wasn’t the one who characterized my scenario by saying “a few months here or there won’t make much of a difference”. Nor does anything in that scenario require that to be true.
OK, so for me someone who leaves a place because they aren’t safe there is a refugee rather than a migrant (or: as well as a migrant, but I would generally prefer to use the more informative term) even if the danger isn’t imminent.
If I live in a community where people of my ethnicity or religion or eye colour or whatever are being murdered at a rate that means I’ll probably last five years, that’s a serious threat and I need to get the hell out of there even though a couple of months’ extra time there doesn’t make a huge difference to the likelihood of death.
This depends on what “huge” means. If you’re not likely to live five years, your chance of death in a few months isn’t huge in comparison to 100% or 50%, but it’s still huge in comparison to the average person’s chance of death.
Sure. I wasn’t the one who characterized my scenario by saying “a few months here or there won’t make much of a difference”. Nor does anything in that scenario require that to be true.