deportee
Sent back home
A deportee is a person who has been deported or is in the process of being deported—forcibly removed from a country by government authorities.
The term appears in immigration contexts and journalism: The plane carried deportees back to Guatemala.
As a deportee, she was barred from returning for ten years.
Person fleeing danger abroad
- asylum seekerOne requesting official protection
- displaced personSomeone forced from home
- statelessWithout national belonging
- expelleeOne formally removed
repatriate · returnee · evacuee · émigré · fugitive · outcast · wanderer · dispossessed
Travel authorization stamp
- undocumentedNot officially recorded
- alienNon-native being
- migrantOne who relocates
- green cardU.S. residency document
citizenship · naturalization · asylum · border · detention · ICE · immigration court · sponsor
Scattered population sharing origins
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- emigrantPerson resettling in another nation
- scatteredSpread irregularly about
- homelandOne's native land
separation · community · resettlement · host country · remittance · transnational · displacement · migration
refugee
Person fleeing danger abroad
- asylum seekerOne requesting official protection
- displaced personSomeone forced from home
- statelessWithout national belonging
expellee · repatriate · returnee · evacuee · émigré · fugitive · outcast · wanderer · dispossessed · banished
visa
Travel authorization stamp
- undocumentedNot officially recorded
- alienNon-native being
- migrantOne who relocates
green card · citizenship · naturalization · asylum · border · detention · ICE · immigration court · sponsor · work permit
diaspora
Scattered population sharing origins
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- emigrantPerson resettling in another nation
- scatteredSpread irregularly about
homeland · separation · community · resettlement · host country · remittance · transnational · displacement · migration · belonging
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- residentsresident, residents, inhabitants, inhabitant, local
- exileexile, banishment, exiled, banished, exiling
- legal statusesmarried, single, divorced, citizen, widowed
- deportationremoval, expulsion, reinstatement, exclusion, family separation
- illegal migrantsillegal alien, undocumented immigrant, undocumented worker
deporteecitizen
Legal national member
naturalized citizen · national · permanent resident · legal resident · green card holder
- mass deportationForced removal of populations
- deportation ordersGovernment commands to leave country
- deportation policiesRules for expelling noncitizens
- deportation centerFacility for holding those awaiting removal
- deportation policyRules governing forced removal
- deportation fearsAnxiety about forced exile
deport, deportment, deportation, deported, deporting, deports, deportees, self-deported