History Main / WarRefugees

* ''VideoGame/DotsHome'': In 2010, the Tawfiq Family fled from Iraq to escape the Iraq War, and Alma organized a refugee program to help them move into their Detroit neighborhood. As Dot learns in her time travel to that period, immigrants struggle with housing discrimination, even in modern times.

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* ''VideoGame/DotsHome'': In 2010, the Tawfiq Family fled from Iraq to escape the Iraq War, and Alma organized a refugee program to help them move into their Detroit neighborhood. As Dot learns in her time travel to that period, immigrants struggle with housing discrimination, even in modern tims.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' attempting to [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide Purge]] a species from one's empire often results in refugees who will attempt to flee to more accomodating empires or if they can't find any may try to colonize a new planet. Whether an empire accepts refugees depends on the policy they set, Xenophilic empire have to accept refugees to some extent while Xenophobes can accept refugees of their own founding species at most.

*** The Indol Titan has a refugee camp administered by the Praetorium, with many of them being displaced from Gormott by [[TheEmpire Mor Ardain's]] attack some years ago and have no interest returning due to Ardainian occupation of their TItan. These refugees [[FantasticRacism have a particular hatred for Blades]] by blaming them for their part in the conflicts that displaced them, and some chatter has various Indoline citizens being annoyed at the presence of the refugees since they're taking up resources and living space while seemingly acting quite entitled to more.

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* ''Webcomic/DanasStory'': Is [[BasedOnATrueStory based on a real interview]] given to the humanitarian aid charity ''CARE International'' by a woman who fled persecution as a result of the Syrian civil war that is still ongoing as of 2011.

* ''Webomcomic/DanasStory'': Is [[BasedOnATrueStory based on a real interview]] given to the humanitarian aid charity ''CARE International'' by a woman who fled persecution as a result of the Syrian civil war that is still ongoing as of 2011.

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Ariana's family moved to Gotham to escape unrest in Ukraine. The neighborhood they moved to ended up with a large immigrant population of former USSR citizens and was nicknamed Little Odessa.

* In ''Film/HotelRwanda'', the eponymous hotel act as a sanctuary for war refugees, with various amounts of success. The last leg of the story is centered on the refugee truck column heading out from the hotel and towards a safe zone.

* ''Film/TimeBandits'': After going through a time door Kevin ends up in 1796 outside the town of Castiglione delle Stiviere, which had just been conquered by Napoleon. He meets a group of people from the town who are fleeing the fighting.
* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' ends with Thor leading a ship full of huddled, shell-shocked [[spoiler: Asgardian]] refugees from the shattered dust that was their homeworld to a new home on Earth. Much of the film cuts back and forth between Thor trying to escape Sakaar and the refugees initial flight from their homes to escape their new conqueror-queen.
* In ''Film/MidwinterNightsDream'', Jovana and Jasna fled their hometown after Jasna's family was killed and their house was burned.

* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Literature/WitchWorld'' novel ''The Year of the Unicorn'', the abbey holds many refugees, including Gillian herself.

* In John Barnes's ''Literature/OneForTheMorningGlory'', refugees stream to the city. Alas, they have to be carefully checked because many of them are afflicted with undead, often hiding among their own relatives.
* In Creator/DanAbnett's Literature/GauntsGhosts novel ''Necropolis'', a PowderKegCrowd of refugees explodes when officials try to forcibly keep them out of the hive.

* ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'': The squad encounters a huge flood of refugees as they make their way towards the Zlobenian front. Some of the refugees feel more sorry for the ''soldiers'' than they do themselves, which doesn't help the squad's morale any.
* ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'': In ''Lady Knight'', Kel's assignment is to build and oversee a refugee camp near the Scanran front. Even though they're civilians, they're subject to frequent attacks due to their location and must be trained to fight alongside the meager amount of soldiers allotted to the camp's protection. [[spoiler:Even before they're captured so that Blayce can turn their children into killing devices.]]

* In ''The Singing Tree'' by Kate Seredy, German children are sent as evacuees to the farm that is its setting.
* In ''The Chestry Oak'' by Kate Seredy, Michael is a refugee after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and ends up in America, on a farm.
* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Literature/OrdealInOtherwhere'', the Free Trader tells the colonists that he had fine young men under [[MadeASlave indefinite term labor contracts]] because he had been able to recruit the desperate in a refugee camp.
* In Creator/MichaelFlynn's ''Literature/SpiralArm'' novel ''On the Razor's Edge'', one Hound observes that he hopes some refugees (and other powerless people) have breathed easier because he was on the job.
* In ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'', Grantville (a 20th century West Virginia coal mining town dropped into the middle of the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar by AlienSpaceBats) is in danger of being swamped by refugees from the constant passing of armies sacking, plundering, and otherwise ruining the countryside. Not only does it not get drowned in refugees, the town turns them into an asset for a drive into a BoomTown.

* In ''[[Literature/AuntDimity Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince]]'', Gracie Thames' husband Tony is a descendant of a Russian Jew who fled the Nazi invasion during WWII and settled in Britain. Tony's father changed the family name so British customers would buy their line of frozen fish. Also, Mikhail's parents fled Russia [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober when the Bolsheviks came to power]], settling in Britain five months before Mikhail was born.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson and Creator/GordonRDickson's first ''Literature/{{Hoka}}'' story, Alex finds a town filled with refugees from the Slissii -- not acting very prudently even though the advance is continuing.
* Refugees are a perennial issue in the Literature/NewJediOrder, fleeing from one combat zone after another as the Yuuzhan Vong carry out their invasion of the galaxy. Early in the series, a common thread of B-plots deals with the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Senate Select Committee on Refugees (SELCORE)]], which is ostensibly supposed to help these people, but is generally either underfunded or corrupt, or sometimes both. The problem continues to mount, particularly as large refugee fleets end up ''back'' in the line of fire as the invasion progresses.

* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, dealing with refugees is a major problem as the books progress and the escalating warfare and political fallout destabilizes almost every nation in the setting. Later, famine becomes an even bigger problem.

* In the ''Literature/TheKiteRunner'', Baba and Amir are part of the ruling class in Kabul in [[TheSeventies the mid-70s']], with Baba being an admired and respected businessman. However, once [[UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan the Soviet Union invaded]], they and a close friend of Baba flee by way of Pakistan, and though the friend stays in Pakistan, Baba and Amir start a new life in San Francisco, where Baba gets a job as a gas station attendant.
* In ''Literature/CalibansWar'', a war over Ganymede between UNN and MCRN causes massive damage that has displaced many locals, many of whom later spent years flying from port to port, only to be denied entry at each. When a PortalNetwork suddenly connected the Solar System with hundreds of other worlds that can be readily colonised, one ship full of Ganymedean refugees hurriedly took opportunity to make permanent settlement on one of those planets, and they were ''not'' happy when in ''Cibola Burn'', a UN-backed Terran corporation came over trying to make their own settlement on that planet as well.
* ''Literature/ALongPetalOfTheSea'': Víctor Dalmau and his brother's bride Roser Bruguera escape the violence of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar and end up settling in Chile.

* At least half the Koreans we see in ''{{Series/MASH}}'' have fled from the UsefulNotes/KoreanWar battle zones.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Motive}}'', a woman poses as a Czech immigrant. [[spoiler:It turns out that she's wanted for war crimes committed when she was a doctor in a Bosnian Serb hospital.]]

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* Task Force Games' ''TabletopGame/{{Starfire}}'', ''Nexus'' magazine #12 article "Timeline: Modern Rigelian History". During the war between the Protectorate of Rigel and the Andoliani Empire, Protectorate Admiral Tohu Fommu captured the Andoliani colony planet Corall. He crowded the surviving colonists aboard captured freighters and sent them to the next Andoliani planet, Ardell. The large number of refugees overwhelmed Ardell and caused an organizational collapse, allowing it to be easily captured by the Protectorate. The Protectorate used this tactic repeatedly and eventually exterminated the Andoliani.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' backstory, the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Ayleids (Wild Elves)]] once ruled a mighty empire out of their homeland in Cyrodiil. However, they were [[KickTheDog extremely abusive]] to their SlaveRace, the Nedes (human ancestors to almost all of the modern races of Men). The Nedes [[SlaveLiberation revolted]] and (aided by the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Aedric beings who would become the Nine Divines]], [[TokenHeroicOrc rebel Ayleid lords]], and the [[HornyVikings Nordic Empire]]) overthrew the Ayleids and formed the first empire of men in Cyrodiil. Many Ayleids fled to their Elven cousins and neighbors as refugees but found few safe havens. Some were taken in by the Direnni Altmer in High Rock, where the last Ayleid kingdom would form and last for a few more centuries. The Bosmer (Wood Elves) of Valenwood would end up being the most welcoming to the Ayleids and accepted the largest numbers. The Valenwood Ayleids would end up being fully absorbed by Bosmeri culture, leading to their extinction as a unique race.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/BooBoomTheLongWayHome'': The main character, Boo-Boom, is one. So are his parents, which he tries to find back. %%Who is Boo-Boom?

* UsefulNotes/GustavMannerheim was a refugee from the Russian Revolution. The Soviets were later [[UsefulNotes/FinnsWithFearsomeForests to regret]] that he escaped.

* The UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} of 2022 has displaced a staggering [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60555472 12 million people]] and counting, including inside the country (7 million) and outside (5 million). Such an amount hasn't been seen since German populations of Eastern Europe fled the [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Red Army]] in 1945.

* Early in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' you meet a group of refugees on Bionis Leg who fled there after a mechon attack on Colony 6. You are able to do side quests to make their lives easier, and you even eventually help them get their colony back and help rebuild it.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'', Ariana's family moved to Gotham to escape unrest in Ukraine. The neighborhood they moved to ended up with a large immigrant population of former USSR citizens and was nicknamed Little Odessa.