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Forced Migration: Law and Law Practice 523.1: A Bit of Vocabulary

Online dictionaries and Vocabulary

Essential Vocabulary

Asylum: asilio

Asylum status: estado de asilio

Asylum seeker: solicitante de asilio

Refugee: refugiado (masc.); refugiada (fem.)

Gang: pandilla

Gang violence, violencia de pandilla, violencia de las pandillas

Domestic violence: violencia doméstica

Harassment: acoso

Sexual harassment: acoso sexual

Sexual assault: asalto sexual

Sexual abuse: violencia sexual; abuso sexual

Child abuse: abuso infantile

Child sexual abuse: abuso sexual infantile

Expert witness: testigo experto (does not change gender)