asylum 復習
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“Millions of vulnerable children continue to be left behind, including child victims of violence, conflict and sexual exploitation, migrant refugee and asylum-seeking children, children living in poverty, children with disabilities, and children belonging to indigenous and minority groups,” the experts said on Tuesday.
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https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/11/1026121
今回取り上げるのは、asylum /əsάɪləm/ です。以下で意味等を確認していきます。
まず、LDOCEで引いてみると、“protection given to someone by a government because they have escaped from fighting or political trouble in their own country” とあり、『ウィズダム英和辞典』には、「（亡命者などの）保護、亡命、避難所、（孤児・障害者などの）保護施設、収容所」と載っていました。
続いて、『オックスフォード新英英辞典』で語源を調べると、“late Middle English (in the sense ‘place of refuge’, especially for criminals): via Latin from Greek asulon ‘refuge’, fro asulos ‘inviolable’, from a- ‘without’ + sulon ‘right of seizure’. Current senses date from the 18th cent.” と定義されていました。
以上から記事中の “migrant refugee and asylum-seeking children” は、「移民や亡命してきた子供たち」と解釈できると思われます。（Otoyo）
