2.2 Persons in Refugee-like Situations (the comparison's table)

The category The defining line The key distinction from the refugee Asylum seeker The category The defining line The key distinction from the refugee The claim-pending person (the refugee-hood asserted, the determination awaited) The procedural stage (the refugee-in-law if the claim succeeds — the benefit-of-the-doubt's application) Internally Displaced Person (IDP) The displaced inside the country (the border uncrossed) The sovereignty intact — the state's own responsibility; the Guiding Principles' soft-law regime; no 1951 rights Stateless person The no-nationality person (the state's bond absent) The protection problem without displacement (the 1954-and-1961 statelessness conventions); the overlap face: the stateless refugee Migrant The movement by choice (the work-family-study drivers) The voluntariness (no protection trigger); the mixed-migration reality (the migrant-and-refugee flows' mixture) Fugitive from justice The crime's flee-er (the justice's escape) The exclusion's core — the 1951's Art 1F(b) serious-non-political-crime bar; the refugee's anti-thesis Economic migrant The poverty's escape (the livelihood's search) The persecution's absence (the want is not the fear — the line's difficulty debated) The table's craft (the exam's trick): the categories' confusion is the classic short question — the IDP (inside vs outside), the stateless (nationality vs fear), the migrant (choice vs compulsion), the fugitive (excluded vs included), the asylum seeker (pending vs recognised). The refugee's uniqueness: the fear + the ground + the externality + the protection's failure — the…