Malawi, a poor and densely populated country, is struggling, with the assistance of international relief organizations, to provide food and services for the destitute refugees.

Meanwhile, ostensibly destitute Somali refugees led lucrative secret careers as black-market merchants of relief supplies.

He fled to Jordan as a destitute refugee during the 1948 Israeli war of independence, never to return.

As New Amsterdam became crowded with destitute refugees, the colonists resisted Kieft's rule.

Last week hundreds of the destitute refugees, forced to sleep on the street in the winter cold, were rounded up and arrested for vagrancy and loitering.

On the other hand, consider what the burden of having to shelter a million destitute refugees has meant to Zaire, itself an unstructured and miserably poor nation.

Swelled to six times its normal size by 150,000 destitute and debilitated refugees, Piranshahr is bursting at its already frayed seams.

One of the poorest countries in the world, Bangladesh cannot afford to house and feed tens of thousands of utterly destitute refugees.

Orderville was settled primarily by destitute refugees from failed settlements on the Muddy River in Nevada.

Hundreds of thousands of Bosnians have lost homes, relatives and friends, ending the war as destitute refugees.