Title: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants: Three Reasons People Flee Home - Preemptive Love
Headings: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants: Three Reasons People Flee Home
Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants: Three Reasons People Flee Home
Preserving Safety
Preserving Family
Preserving Normalcy

Content: But the real reasons people leave run much deeper. They are more nuanced, specific—and often surprisingly relatable. Here’s what you need to know about why people flee: Preserving Safety
War is often a factor in people leaving their country. But people don’t all immediately start leaving when war breaks out—there’s a tipping point. They might stay until conflict reaches their city, forcing them to flee for their safety. A lot of our refugee friends from Iraq and Syria fled not when the conflict started, but when ISIS came close to their community, when the safety of their families were threatened, when they began to hear stories of the violence that was being done close to home. Sometimes it isn’t war, but gang violence that forces people out. In Central America, gangs pose a real threat, one as dangerous as war. One woman explained that she was forced to leave when a gang, mistaking her tattoo as the symbol for a rival gang, threatened to kill her.