Thinking the forbidden concept: refugees as immigrants and exiles

Exile denotes a place of banishment. Exile, as a place, presupposes its opposite, home. Refugees, once they have reached a, however temporary, endpoint on the flight that has taken them away from home, frequently become exiles: living in a place of banishment and identifying or being regarded as people who have lost their homes. Whereas refugees tend to have been forced out of their native country, immigrants are more likely to be pulled into their new country. To paraphrase the remark of a refugee commenting on his exile: immigrants come to the new country 'in order to be...