forced relocation
Mandated population transfer
Forced relocation is the compulsory movement of people from their homes or lands, typically by government order.
It may be euphemized as removal, resettlement, or transfer.
Historical examples include the displacement of Native Americans, Japanese American internment during World War II, and ethnic cleansing campaigns.
Thousands faced forced relocation when the dam was built.
- internmentWartime civilian imprisonment
- ManzanarWWII incarceration site
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
exile · Trail of Tears · generational trauma · mass exodus · banishment · diaspora · lost homeland · gentrification · eminent domain · refugee · reservation system · ancestral lands · uprootedness · climate refugees · sea-level rise · border crossing · asylum · camps
- CherokeeCherokee Nation, Cherokee syllabary, Sequoyah, Trail of Tears, clan mothers
- exileexile, banishment, exiled, banished, exiling
- Indian RemovalIndian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Indian Territory, Andrew Jackson, forced migration
- Japanese Internmentinternment camps, internment camp, Japanese internment, Executive Order 9066, internees
- persecutionHolocaust, pogrom, genocide, pogroms, ethnic cleansing
- rights abusestorture, ethnic cleansing, arbitrary detention, political prisoners, disappearances
forced relocationrepatriation
Formal return to homeland
homecoming · right of return · restoration · reinstatement · land restoration
forced relocationstaying put
Remaining in place
settlement · permanent residence · rootedness · permanence · stability