émigrés
Those who fled
Émigrés are people who have left their home country, typically for political reasons.
The French word carries connotations of forced or reluctant departure—fleeing revolution, persecution, or regime change rather than simply seeking opportunity: Russian émigrés in Paris after 1917, Cuban émigrés in Miami.
The singular is émigré.
Scattered population sharing origins
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- homelandOne's native land
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
identity · mother tongue · customs · traditions · belonging · rootlessness · longing · memories
Banishment from homeland
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- dissidentOpposer of established systems
- defectorOne who abandons allegiance
- asylumShelter from persecution
expat · banishment · persecution · regime · diaspora · flight · sanctuary · opposition
French Reformed Protestant
- White RussianVodka-coffee liqueur-cream cocktail
- CubanFrom a Caribbean nation
- VietnameseOf Southeast Asian nation
- IranianFrom Tehran's country
Hungarian · aristocrat · revolution · persecution · pogrom · upheaval · ancien régime · Bolshevik
Payments sent abroad
- opportunityFavorable circumstance for advancement
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- livelihoodMeans of earning income
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
starting over · savings · skilled worker · professional · brain drain · qualification · credential · employment
Grooming establishment or gathering
- ParisFrance's chief city
- BerlinGermany's largest city
- New YorkNortheastern metropolis and state
- literary circleGroup discussing literature
patron · bohemian · intellectual · writer · composer · painter · avant-garde · modernist
diaspora
Scattered population sharing origins
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- homelandOne's native land
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
heritage · identity · mother tongue · customs · traditions · belonging · rootlessness · longing · memories · cultural preservation
exile
Banishment from homeland
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- dissidentOpposer of established systems
- defectorOne who abandons allegiance
asylum · expat · banishment · persecution · regime · diaspora · flight · sanctuary · opposition · escape
Huguenot
French Reformed Protestant
- White RussianVodka-coffee liqueur-cream cocktail
- CubanFrom a Caribbean nation
- VietnameseOf Southeast Asian nation
Iranian · Hungarian · aristocrat · revolution · persecution · pogrom · upheaval · ancien régime · Bolshevik · dispossession
remittances
Payments sent abroad
- opportunityFavorable circumstance for advancement
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- livelihoodMeans of earning income
entrepreneurship · starting over · savings · skilled worker · professional · brain drain · qualification · credential · employment · small business
salon
Grooming establishment or gathering
literary circle · patron · bohemian · intellectual · writer · composer · painter · avant-garde · modernist · Nabokov
émigrésimmigrants
Those settling abroad
arrivals · newcomers · incomers · new arrivals · settlers
émigréstourists
Travelers seeing sights
visitors · travelers · sojourners · holidaymakers · transients