emigre
Left their homeland
An emigre is someone who has left their home country, typically for political reasons.
The word carries connotations of forced departure or exile rather than voluntary relocation: Russian emigres who fled after the Revolution, Cuban emigres in Miami.
The term suggests maintaining cultural ties to the homeland while living abroad.
Also spelled émigré.
Banishment from homeland
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- migrantOne who relocates
- deporteePerson forcibly removed abroad
expellee · relocation · resettlement · uprooting · transplantation · departure · banishment · deportation
One who abandons allegiance
- dissidentOpposer of established systems
- exileBanishment from homeland
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- asylumShelter from persecution
persecution · revolution · regime · escape · flight · anti-communist · sanctuary · oppression
One excluded from group
- strangerPerson not yet known
- foreignerNon-native person
- otherDistinct from those mentioned
- rootlessnessState of having no anchor
displacement · isolation · estrangement · unbelonging · marginalization · accent · otherness · liminal
Absorbing into a whole
- integrationCombining into a whole
- acculturationAdopting another group's customs
- naturalizationLegal path to belonging
- citizenshipStatus as state member
visa · passport · reinvention · bicultural · belonging
Longing for one's dwelling
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- memoriesStored past experiences
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
melancholy · hiraeth · motherland · reminiscence · keepsakes · photographs · bittersweet · return
One's native land
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- communityCollective of connected people
- enclaveSurrounded distinct territory
colony · settlement · compatriots · kinship · roots · lineage · traditions · mother-tongue
exile
Banishment from homeland
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- migrantOne who relocates
deportee · expellee · relocation · resettlement · uprooting · transplantation · departure · banishment · deportation · expulsion
defector
One who abandons allegiance
- dissidentOpposer of established systems
- exileBanishment from homeland
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
asylum · persecution · revolution · regime · escape · flight · anti-communist · sanctuary · oppression · czarist
outsider
One excluded from group
rootlessness · displacement · isolation · estrangement · unbelonging · marginalization · accent · otherness · liminal · in-between
assimilation
Absorbing into a whole
- integrationCombining into a whole
- acculturationAdopting another group's customs
- naturalizationLegal path to belonging
citizenship · visa · passport · reinvention · bicultural · belonging
homesickness
Longing for one's dwelling
wistfulness · melancholy · hiraeth · motherland · reminiscence · keepsakes · photographs · bittersweet · return · homecoming
homeland
One's native land
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- communityCollective of connected people
enclave · colony · settlement · compatriots · kinship · roots · lineage · traditions · mother-tongue · remittances
- French RevolutionBastille, guillotine, Robespierre, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette
- emigrationeconomic migrants, political refugees, expat, asylum seekers, expatriation
- foreignersforeigner, immigrant, immigrants, migrant, expats
- Former Rolesex-president, ex-wife, ex-husband, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
emigreimmigrant
One who resettles abroad
incomer · repatriate · arrival · newcomer · settler
emigrenative
Originating from a place
native-born · citizen · resident · local · stay-at-home
emigretourist
Traveler visiting attractions
visitor · traveler · vacationer · sojourner · day-tripper
- Russian emigrePerson who left Russia
- emigrant shipVessel transporting those leaving home