Term | Categories |
Migrant | Low-wage migrant, low-skilled migrant, migrant or immigrant who lives in poverty, transient migrant, seasonal migrant worker, undocumented migrant, trafficking victim. |
Refugee | Resettled refugee, mandate refugee, refugee in transit. |
Asylum-seeker* | Individual who is waiting for their asylum claim to be assessed. |
*‘Asylum-seeker’ is legally different from ‘refugee’. For ease of readability, we group refugee and asylum-seeker together using the term ‘refugee’ in most of our writings, unless it is necessary to differentiate them.