political exile
Expelled for beliefs
Political exile is forced or voluntary absence from one's country due to political circumstances—often to escape persecution, imprisonment, or death.
Exiles may be formally banished by a government or may flee preemptively: The writer lived in political exile in Paris for twenty years.
The term also describes a person in this situation: a community of political exiles.
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- enemy of the statePerson opposed by government
Dalai Lama · diaspora · distant shores · statelessness · Thomas Paine · defector · freedom fighter · Victor Hugo · refugee status · emigré · Leon Trotsky · Ovid · homesickness · Edward Snowden · Romanticism · banishment · ideological conflict · Karl Marx
- emigrationemigrant, emigration, economic migrants, emigre, expat
- exilebanishment, exiled, banished, exiling, expulsion
- Modern EgyptGamal Abdel Nasser, Nasser, Suez Canal, Anwar Sadat, Mubarak
- political turmoilpower vacuum, coup d'etat, military coup, uprising, revolt
- repressionsecret police, mass arrests, torture, disappearances, detention camps
- Shakespeare ExileProspero, banishment, Coriolanus, Richard II, Cordelia
political exileresident
One who inhabits
homecoming · permanent resident · naturalized citizen · repatriation · return from exile
political exilegovernment official
State-employed administrator
apparatchik · party loyalist · ruling elite · political prisoner · head of state