exiles
Driven from homeland
Exiles are people forced to leave their homeland, typically for political reasons.
The term covers both the banished and those who flee to avoid persecution.
Exile can also be self-imposed: writers and artists sometimes live as exiles by choice, finding creative freedom abroad.
The exiles gathered in Paris, plotting their return.
People seeking safety elsewhere
- deporteesThose legally removed
- statelessWithout national belonging
- dispossessedDeprived of home or land
- uprootedRemoved from foundation
evacuees · migrants · emigrants · fugitives · expatriates · transplanted · resettled · repatriated
Legal expulsion from country
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- ostracizeExclude from a group
- proscribeOfficially forbid something
- evictRemove from property legally
oust · excommunicate · extradite · purge · relegate · disown · repudiate · shun
Homeless wanderer by choice
- vagabondHomeless, aimless wanderer
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
- itinerantMoving for work
- wayfarerTraveler, especially walking
sojourner · pilgrim · wanderer · roamer · rootless · homeless · stateless · transient
Complete separation from others
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
- lonelinessState of lacking companions
- disconnectionState of being severed
- separationState of being apart
outsider · pariah · outcast · marginalization · detachment · anomie · disaffection · rootlessness
Longing for the past
- homesicknessLonging for one's dwelling
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- piningAching with prolonged desire
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
wistful · motherland · homeland · ancestral · memory · loss · return · homecoming
Opposer of established systems
- defectorOne who abandons allegiance
- émigréOne who left home
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- asylumShelter from persecution
oppression · persecution · regime · coup · revolution · escape · flight · underground
refugees
People seeking safety elsewhere
- deporteesThose legally removed
- statelessWithout national belonging
- dispossessedDeprived of home or land
uprooted · evacuees · migrants · emigrants · fugitives · expatriates · transplanted · resettled · repatriated · diasporic
deportation
Legal expulsion from country
evict · oust · excommunicate · extradite · purge · relegate · disown · repudiate · shun · blacklist
nomad
Homeless wanderer by choice
wayfarer · sojourner · pilgrim · wanderer · roamer · rootless · homeless · stateless · transient · migrant
isolation
Complete separation from others
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
- lonelinessState of lacking companions
- disconnectionState of being severed
separation · outsider · pariah · outcast · marginalization · detachment · anomie · disaffection · rootlessness · belonging
nostalgia
Longing for the past
- homesicknessLonging for one's dwelling
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- piningAching with prolonged desire
melancholy · wistful · motherland · homeland · ancestral · memory · loss · return · homecoming · reminiscence
dissident
Opposer of established systems
asylum · oppression · persecution · regime · coup · revolution · escape · flight · underground · resistance
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
- Philippine historypresidents, Spanish rule, vice president, revolutionaries, Imelda
- Cold War Dissentdissidents, samizdat, refuseniks, defectors, Radio Free Europe
- diasporaAfrican diaspora, Irish diaspora, emigrants, Jewish diaspora, Vietnamese Americans
- Greek Independenceuprising, Greek War of Independence, liberation struggle, revolt, revolutionaries
exilesemigrants
People leaving their country
immigrants · expatriates · émigrés · settlers · colonists
- governments in exileDisplaced ruling bodies abroad
- political exileBanished for political reasons
- forced exileInvoluntary removal from home
- tax exileOne who relocates abroad to avoid duties
- return from exileResuming life after banishment
- voluntary exileChosen departure from homeland