According to Shandy in "Nuer Refugees in America," the UN classifies refugees as people who have
A) left their home country but are willing to return.
B) left their home country to seek economic prosperity elsewhere.
C) left their home country because they fear persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a social group.
D) left their homes but are still in their home country.

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Shandy states in the article that the UN defines a refugee as someone who has "a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group, who is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country." Therefore, the correct answer is C.