remigrated

Came home again

Remigrated is the past tense of remigrate, meaning to migrate again or return to a place one had previously left through migration.

The term appears most often in discussions of people who emigrated from their home country, settled elsewhere, and later returned: After twenty years in Canada, she remigrated to Poland.

It can also describe animals that resume migratory patterns or return to former habitats.

relocation

resettlement

Reestablishing in new place

departure · arrival · journey · transition · adaptation · displacement · uprooting · reestablishment · housing · employment

homecoming

reunion

Gathering after separation

roots · ancestry · heritage · motherland · fatherland · family · kinship · memories · childhood · traditions

identity

diaspora

Scattered population sharing origins

citizenship · naturalization · assimilation · integration · multicultural · belonging · identity · hyphenated · bicultural · cross-cultural

reintegration

readjustment

Modifying something again

belonging · rebuilding · reconnecting · relearning

legal

visa

Travel authorization stamp

bureaucracy · permits · registration · nationality · consulate · embassy · paperwork · asylum · deportation

Opposites
migration direction

remigratedemigrated

Left one's native land

expatriated · departed · left · moved away · immigrated

mobility vs permanence

remigratedstayed

Continued being present

remained · stayed put · settled · rooted · put down roots

Family

remigrate, remigration

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