refugee crisis

C35571
concept

A refugee crisis is a large-scale, often sudden displacement of people fleeing conflict, persecution, or disaster, overwhelming the capacity of receiving states and humanitarian systems to provide protection and basic needs.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
refugee crisis canonical 3
migration crisis 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: refugee crisis
Generated description
A refugee crisis is a large-scale, often sudden displacement of people fleeing conflict, persecution, or disaster, overwhelming the capacity of receiving states and humanitarian systems to provide protection and basic needs.

Instances (4)

Instance Via concept surface
Great Lakes refugee crises
Retirada (mass flight to France in early 1939)
surface form: Retirada
Laotian refugee crisis
European migrant crisis migration crisis