Possible Clues:

• Asylum-seeker
• Albert Einstein, notably
• Certain new resident
• Victim of regime change?
• One no longer at home
• One moving overseas record company erected work unit
• Asylum-seeker is not bad, withdrawing from board meeting
• Turns up, from the start, Eliot and Frost got hold of graphic introduction produced by political exile
• Nureyev, notably
• Outgoing type of regular mermaid girl, eh?