Editing Forced displacement (section)

==== History of the term ''displaced person'' ====

The term ''displaced person'' (DP) was first widely used during [[World War II]], following the subsequent refugee outflows from [[Eastern Europe]].<ref>Mark Wyman (1998). ''DPs: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945–1951''. Cornell University Press (reprint). {{ISBN|0-8014-8542-8}}.</ref> In this context, ''DP'' specifically referred to an individual removed from their native country as a [[refugee]], [[prison]]er or a [[unfree labour|slave laborer]]. Most war victims, political refugees, and DPs of the immediate post-[[Second World]] War period were Ukrainians, Poles, other [[Slavs]], and citizens of the Baltic states (Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians) who refused to return to Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe.
A. J. Jaffe claimed that the term was originally coined by [[Eugene M. Kulischer]].<ref>A. J. Jaffe (April 1962). [https://www.jstor.org/pss/3348648 "Notes on the Population Theory of Eugene M. Kulischer". In: ''The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly'', Vol. 40, No. 2. pp. 187–206.]</ref> The meaning has significantly broadened in the past half-century.