What does it mean to be a refugee? Why would a person become a refugee?

This question asks readers to critically and thoughtfully engage with the concept of “refugee,” with what the term means and what it implies. The question asks readers to consider what might make a person choose to flee virtually everything they know and everything they have ever been in order to make a new life and a new hope for themselves. Finally, the question asks the reader to engage with the implications of the book’s title, and also engage initially with one of the author’s key considerations. This is her claim that people living in and governing host countries, particularly in the West, tend to believe that refugees owe them significant degrees of gratitude.  

What does the author mean when she speaks of refugees being seen by people in host countries as being “hallowed by evading hell” (10)?