♤ The term migrant applies to anyone moving from one country to another with the intention to stay in that place for some period of time.

♤ A refugee is someone who is outside of their home country who cannot return to their home country because there is a real chance that they will be seriously harmed for reason of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or because they belong to a particular social group.

♤ An asylum seeker is someone who says he or she is a refugee, but whose claim has not yet been definitively evaluated, has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution, serious human rights violations and other serious harm.