refugee camp, noun phrase

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Also with initial capitals.
historical
concentration camp.
1900 Bloemfontein Post in W.S. Sutherland S. Afr. Sketches (1901) 84There is certainly nothing unpleasant about the name of a ‘camp’...It is only when you attach the name ‘refugee’ to it that it sounds unpleasant...No, a Refugee Camp is no joke, at least to the elders of the Orange River Colony band.
1901 Grocott’s Penny Mail 17 Apr. 3Troops were despatched to the farm and just punishment was inflicted on the women. They were sent to the refugee camp.
1902 E. Hobhouse Brunt of War 103I have been out with a column, and it is sickening. We burn every farm we come to and bring the women and children to the Refugee Camps.
1901 Mrs Dickenson in E. Hobhouse Brunt of War 207Refugee Camps is a misnomer; they are really prisons.
1902 D. Van Warmelo On Commando 134Some men got messages from their wives imprisoned in refugee camps, bidding them to surrender for the sake of their wives, since fighting was of no avail and the country was already lost.
[1903 E.F. Knight S. Afr. after War 81He wore a medal with the letters ‘R.C.’ and a number inscribed on it, which showed that he had accompanied the womenfolk to the refuge camp.]
1974 J.P. Brits Diary of Nat. Scout 55From November 1900 the British established ‘Refugee camps’, in which Boer women and children were concentrated under appalling living conditions which resulted in the death of approximately 26000.
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