Forced Migration as Ground State Destruction and the Refugee as Displaced System: Home, Loss, and the Impossible Return

We apply the Displacement Framework to forced migration, treating home as a composite ground state S0_home across five dimensions: language, community, landscape, legal status, and memory. Forced displacement destroys the original attractor, producing permanent high-D(xi). Refugee limbo is formalized as wrong-attractor lock-in. Integration is S0_new construction — distinct from return.

Family separation adds independent displacement vectors. Trauma is accumulated Phi. Second-generation refugees displaced from their actual home face a novel form of wrongful displacement not captured by current policy frameworks.