IDPs in the United States

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There are about 1,000,000 internally dispaced persons (IDPs) in the United States. They are often referred to as refugees although many find this term pejorative and prefer the term evacuees. These are people from the Gulf States region in the southern United States, most notably New Orleans, Louisiana, who have been forced to leave their homes due to the devastation brought on by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.^[1]

[edit] See also

• Internally displaced person
• Refugee
• Political asylee
• Emergency evacuation

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Katrina and Rita IDPs are not of concern to, and therefore not counted by, UNHCR (2005 Global Refugee TrendsPDF, UNHCR, Table 14, p. 94). They therefore do not appear in many international numbers. However, they are often discussed under the IDP definition. (Example: Harvard Educational Review editorial)